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This is the original (or second original) recording of Butterfly, that was released on 'Thrust'. It features the new line-up that included Mike Clark on drums, who'd replaced Harvey Mason on drums for the tour of the first album. Mike Clark was already friends with Paul Jackson and Paul recommended him to Herbie. Herbie loved Mike's linear funk style and hired him.
'Butterfly' and 'Actual Proof' (previously 'The Spook Who Sat By The Door') were both recorded with Harvey Mason on drums for 'Headhunters but they could only fit 4 compositions on the LP - and even then, that was only by editing 'Chameleon' down from 23 minutes to 16 minutes. The recording of 'Butterfly' has never seen the light of day and 'The Spook' was released in a 4 minute clip on the B side of 'Herbie Hancock Demonstrates The Fender Rhodes Piano' (a flexidisc included with a copy of Downbeat magazine in 1974).
'Butterfly' has become a jazz standard and it is one of Herbie's finest, most beautiful compositions. The combination of Rhodes, Bill Summer's conga rubs, Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet and soprano solo soaring over the earthy, gritty rhythm section of Mike Clark and Paul Jackson results in a soundscape never matched by anybody else. This is timeless and just like Herbie's other recordings from that era, surpasses any attempt to cover or imitate it.

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