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Herbie Hancock Head Hunters CD

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Head Hunters has spawned a thousand copies and copyists, but is only strengthened through comparison. One of the most enduring works of the 70s' jazz/funk legacy, and surely one of Herbie Hancock's most enjoyable and infectious recordings, the album was released in the deeply groovy days of 1973, and soon became the best-selling record in jazz history. Loping along on a glorious bed of springy wah-wah and synth bass, the group used all the new technology of the time, and Hancock himself seemed to revel (as he still does) in the latest keyboard sounds available to him. Jazz/funk has never again sounded so exciting and dangerous.

Recorded at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co., San Francisco, California. Includes liner notes by Scott H. Thompson and Herbie Hancock.

Personnel: Herbie Hancock (Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, synthesizer); Bennie Maupin (soprano & tenor saxophones, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute); Paul Jackson (marimbula, bass); Harvey Mason (drums); Bill Summers (congas, shekere, balafon, agogo, cabasa, hindewho, tambourine, log drum, surdo, gankoqui, beer bottle).



This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Q (2/00, p.100) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...it's among the best 'fusion' records ever made, its funky alliances of twittering Afro-percussion and high-tensile rock spine building into a kind of electric rainforest music of an almost political intensity..."
Down Beat (1/17/74) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...Herbie translates 'communicate directly' pretty much into 'get down.' The warp-drive electronic space flights of CROSSINGS and SEXTANT have given way to a more basic music, harmonically simple and rhythmically earthy....[HEADHUNTERS] speaks its message--loud and clear..."
JazzTimes (9/97, p.65) - "...a preeminent example of sophisticated funkology....this is where it all started."
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Category Rock/Pop Albums, Jazz CDs, R&B, Jazz Instrument, Funk, Drums, Keyboard / Synthesizer
Label Legacy
Orig Year 1973
All Time Sales Rank   1753  
CD Universe Part number 1088622
Catalog number 65123
Discs 1
Release Date Mar 25, 1997
Studio/Live Studio
Mono/Stereo Stereo
Producer David Rubinson; Herbie Hancock
Engineer Vic Anesini
Recording Time 41 minutes
Personnel Herbie Hancock - Fender Rhodes piano, Clavinet, synthesizer
Harvey Mason - drums
Paul Jackson - marimbula, bass
Bill Summers - congas, shekere, balafon, agogo, cabasa, hindewho, tambourine, log drum, surdo, gankoqui, beer bottle

Also: Bennie Maupin
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4 stars style of the seventies
pop jazz is the name of what it was refered by a college classmate of mines really enjoys this he's twenty years my junior a mixture of modern devices new techniques an the craftmanship of herbie hancock will have you hooked.
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4 stars Headhunters 2001
The music as recorded by Herbie Hancock has had its quality enhanced by the digital processing. Great music, at a great price, with phenomenal sound.
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5 stars Welcome to the Funk Factory - time to punch in...
This band is a well-oiled, over-time workin' factory of funk, and they don't take no lunch breaks...They're too busy manufacturing some of the baddest funk ever (besides, the break room is full of "smooth jazz" posers, drinking milk and talking about themselves). Harvey Mason lays out the phat grooves throughout, and the bass / drum combo is irresistable. Keys, of course, are awesome, as are the saxophones... Arrangements are simple but creative and catchy. No import knock-offs here, thank you very much. This is all-American, funk-factory approved, grade-A choice FUNK. Bottom line: you cannot resist the vicious, funk-a-licius dishes served up on Herbie Hankock's Headhunters, so don't even try. If you've never heard this album, you're 23 years late for work, so put on your funkin' boots and punch in! Enjoy.
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5 stars YES, you should
This is one of THE most popular "jazz" albums of all times. Released the sa,e year as "Spectrum", Head Hunters combines funk with jazz and good ol' Herbie playing those lines that are still hip today.
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5 stars most potent album
why would you ever give this 4 stars? some might argue not the most essential of his recordings, but this is timeless...maybe the perfect album to get acquainted with...it can't be touched...the funk fury wipes out the horizon and resonates...nothing can withstand it
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