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Herbie Hanccock: Head Hunters

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1973
Time:
 41:47
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Herbie Hancock, David Rubinson
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.herbiehancock.com
Appears with: Chick Corea, Jack de Johnette
Purchase date: 1999
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Chameleon (Hancock/Jackson/Mason/Maupin) - 15:41
[2] Watermelon Man (Hancock) - 6:29
[3] Sly (Hancock) - 10:15
[4] Vein Melter (Hancock) - 9:09

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Herbie Hancock - Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Piano (Electric), Pipe, Vocals, Clavinet, Producer, Liner Notes, Arp, Fender Rhodes, Original Recording Producer

Bennie Maupin - Flute, Percussion, Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute, Soprano & Tenor Saxophone, Wind, Reeds, Saxello
Bill Summers - Percussion, Conga, Tambourine, Multi Instruments, Balafon, Bottle, Surdo, Agogo, Shekere, Shakere, Gankogui, Log Drums, Cabasa, Hinedewho
Amy Herot - Coordination
Paul Jackson - Bass, Bass (Electric), Marimbas, Marimbula
Harvey Mason, Sr. - Drums
Oren Waters - Vocals

Bob Belden - Executive Producer
Fred Catero - Engineer
David Rubinson - Producer, Original Recording Producer
John Snyder - Producer, Project Producer
Mark Wilder - Mastering
Jeremy Zatkin - Engineer
Gina Campanaro - Package Coordinator
Seth Rothstein - Project Director
Vic Anesini - Digital Remastering
Paul M. Martin - Art Coordinator
Victor Moscoso - Art Direction, Design, Cover Design
Cozbi Sanchez-Cabrera - Art Direction
Scott H. Thompson - Liner Notes
Randall Martin - Design
Waldo Bascom - Photography
Michael Brooks - Coordination
Rene Arsenault - Assistant Producer

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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 devloped 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 two decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul and hip-hop.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All-Music Guide



Herbie Hancock took a rather remarkable career turn in 1972: He simultaneously sought to go deeper in the African-influenced direction of the jazz underground and to move more towards the mainstream at the same time. Influenced by Sly Stone (hence the song title "Sly"), Hancock attempted to infuse funk with jazz, and the results were the instant hip-hop classic Head Hunters. Head Hunters also features a great version of Hancock's classic "Watermelon Man" that must be heard to be believed.

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