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Chicago-born keyboardist Herbie Hancock is experienced in all jazz related genres from acoustic and blues to electro funk. Hancock has been a pioneer on the keyboards with the coming of the electric Fender Rhodes piano as well as with the coming of the first synthesizers and was there when Miles Davis invented jazz rock or fusion (jazz funk) at the end of the sixties. With appearances on the album by a.o. Jaco Pastorius, Ernie Watts, Bernie Maupin and Harvey Mason, “Mr. Funk” is a collection of Columbia recordings opening with the Head Hunters version of “Watermelon Man” and closing with the 1983’s crossover million selling hit “Rock It” from the album “Future Shock”.