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Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
Year: 1973
Label: Columbia Jazz (20-Bit Remastered)
Bitrate: 320 kbps
The largest selling jazz album in history...
This is the album that busted it all wide open for an entire generation of jazzoids. ~ from the CD booklet.
Head Hunters was a pivotal point in Herbie Hancock's career, bringing him into the vanguard of jazz fusion. Hancock had pushed avant-garde boundaries on his own albums and with Miles Davis, but he had never devoted himself to the groove as he did on Head Hunters. Drawing heavily from Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, and James Brown, Hancock developed deeply funky, even gritty, rhythms over which he soloed on electric synthesizers, bringing the instrument to the forefront in jazz. It had all of the sensibilities of jazz, particularly in the way it wound off into long improvisations, but its rhythms were firmly planted in funk, soul, and R&B, giving it a mass appeal that made it the biggest-selling jazz album of all time (a record which was later broken). Jazz purists, of course, decried the experiments at the time, but Head Hunters still sounds fresh and vital decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop. - AMG
Personnel:
Herbie Hancock (Fender Rhodes and Synthesizer)
Bennie Maupin (Soprano and Tenor Saxophone, Saxello, Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute)
Paul Jackson (Bass Guitar and Marimbula)
Harvey Mason (Drums)
Bill Summers (Percussion)
Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters Tracks:
01 Chameleon
02 Watermelon Man
03 Sly
04 Vein Melter
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