Raja, The Great
2011-02-18 05:02:33 UTC
Great album. Listen to these songs....
Is this is the second best fusion album after Miles Davis Bitches
Brew?
Nice review on allmusic.com
http://allmusic.com/album/head-hunters-r140166
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.
Is this is the second best fusion album after Miles Davis Bitches
Brew?
Nice review on allmusic.com
http://allmusic.com/album/head-hunters-r140166
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.