Watermelon Man

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)

J Dilla - "Zen Guitar" (2005)

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”