Actual Proof
Context
On their second album together, Thrust (Columbia, 1974), Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters have Mike Clark replace Harvey Mason on drums. "Actual Proof," originally written for the film The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973), also serves as a showcase for Hancock's Fender Rhodes playing; the album reached number 2 on Billboard's soul chart.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk: Modal, Soul jazz, boogaloo, Hard bop, Free jazz, Brazilian instrumental music, Indo-jazz, Modern big bands, Clube da Esquina (Minas Gerais).