Despite not recording any music until he was in his 30s, Bobby McFerrin had already spent half a decade honing a quite striking craft. He wanted a sound unlike anybody else’s, refraining from listening to any other singers for two whole years. For this concert, at the Munich Summer Piano Festival in 1988, we see Bobby at a very special moment in his career, just before everything changed. Indeed, a few months after this performance, he would release "Don’t Worry, Be Happy," a track that got to N

Watch the incomparable Bobby McFerrin perform "Thinkin' About Your Body" live in 1986 during the recording of his album "Spontaneous Inventions": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4BhsYbXwf4 Get the vinyl LP on the Blue Note Store: https://store.bluenote.com/products/bobby-mcferrin-spontaneous-inventions-lp | Blue Note Records