Watermelon Man

Hancock rerecorded the tune for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a Sly Stone and James Brown funk influence, adding an eightbar section. Hancock described his composition Chameleon, also from Head Hunters, to Down Beat magazine in 1979: In the popular forms of funk, which I ve been trying to get into, the attention is on the rhythmic interplay between different instruments. The part the Clavinet plays has to fit with the part the drums play and the line the bass plays and the line tha br, br,