"Hang Up Your Hang Ups", live in Denmark, 1976.

Herbie Hancock, keyboards; Wah Wah Watson, guitar; Paul Jackson, bass; Bennie Maupin, flute & reeds; James Levi, drums

Guitarist Melvin M. Ragin, a.k.a. Wah Wah Watson, was a member of the Motown studio band The Funk Brothers

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Pretty Purdie - Funky Mozart John Timmons and Funkshun - Love At First Sight Wah Wah Watson - Good Friends Melvin Sparks - You‘re Gonna Make It Bob Thiele Emergency - Head Start Lonnie Liston Smith And The Cosmic Echoes - A Chance For Peace Leon Thomas - Bag‘s Groove Monk Higgins - Walking In My Sleep Brian Auger‘s Oblivion Express - Freedom Jazz Dance Cannonball Adderley - Black Messiah (live)

Carlos Santana has a career that moves within a variety of idioms, though he remains a rock musician at heart. Sure, he appears on many jazz fusion records, yet he always puts some of his rock stylings in these proceedings. That makes his collaboration with Herbie Hancock on Monster weird, since you can't really locate much of the rock idiom there. To be honest, you can't find jazz there either. Actually, I am quite happy to hear Herbie Hancock did some LPs, where he discarded his genre and which probably pissed off most of his audience. Nonetheless, there's something admirable about someone like him doing something like this, more musicians should do this more often. And the fact that he convinced Santana for this? Even better.

Wah Wah Watson with Herbie Hancock 1976 (live video) - Hang Up Your Hang...

Wah Wah Watson with Herbie Hancock 1976 (live video) - Hang Up Your Hang Ups

Wah-Wah (2005)

Guitarist Melvin M. Ragin, a.k.a. Wah Wah Watson, was a member of the Motown studio band The Funk Brothers

A very happy birthday to Emily Watson!