A year and a half before keyboardist Herbie Hancock recorded his seminal Headhunters album in the fall of 1973, he was in Paris performing with his Mwandishi Sextet. Mwandishi is Swahili for composer and it's a name Hancock adopted for himself in the late 1960s and early '70s. Members of his group followed suit: Mganga ("doctor," whose traditional funct…
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