Watermelon Man
Description
Music in this episode:
Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man" (Takin' Off, 1962)
Mongo Santamaría - "Watermelon Man" (1963)
Poncho Sanchez - "Watermelon Man" (1999)
Johnny Taylor - "Watermelon Man" (1967)
Herbie Hancock - "Watermelon Man" (Headhunters, 1973)
Simha Aron & Geneviève Taurelle - "Hindewhu (Whistle) Solo" (The Music of the Ba-Benzélé Pygmies, 1966)
Digable Planets - "Escapism (Gettin' Free)" (1993)
Madonna - "Sanctuary" (1994)
Rapsody - "Whoopi" (2019)
Kaluli People of the Bosavi Rainforest - "Relaxing By the Creek" (1991)
Manu Dibango - “Electric Africa” (1985)
Lionel Loueke - "Watermelon Man" (2020)
Other references:
* Herbie Hancock interview with Elvis Costello
* Francis Bebey explains the single-note flute
* Steven Feld - “Pygmy POP - A Genealogy of Schizophonic Mimesis”
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