Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Hybrid SACD)
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Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes, clavinet, ARP Odyssey synthesizer, ARP Soloist [click here to see more vinyl featuring Herbie Hancock]
Bennie Maupin – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute
Paul Jackson – bass guitar, marímbula
Harvey Mason – drums
Bill Summers – agogô, balafon, beer bottle, cabasa, congas, gankogui, hindewhu, log drum, shekere, surdo, tambourine
1 Hybrid SACD
Original analog Master tape : YES
Stereo
Studio
Label : Analogue Productions
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded in September 1973 in Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Studios in San Francisco, California
Engineered by Dane Butcher, John Vieira, Fred Catero, Jeremy Zatkin
Produced by David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Remastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith
Originally released in 1973
Reissued in 2016
Tracks :
1. Chameleon
2. Watermelon Man
3. Sly
4. Vein Melter
Awards:
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Ranked 254
1000 Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die - Ranked 285
Reviews :
"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." Head Hunters Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ratings :
AllMusic 5/5 , Discogs : 4.19 / 5