R&B

October, 1995

For 30 years Herbie Hancock has been making great pop music along with fine jazz. Go back to Watermelon Man and forward to Rockit, and you get some idea of the range of Dis Is da Drum (Mercury) and of the sheer joy expressed in the music it contains. Call It '95 sweeps together house rhythms, a trumpet played in the style of Miles Davis, a riffing horn section à la Earth, Wind & Fire, and Hancock's own majestic piano. The title track plays techno games with electronic rhythms, Weather Report pia...