Head Hunters

CD album.

Nära nyskick. CD, Columbia CK 65123 (1973 / 1997). Herbie Hancock fick sitt stora kommersiella genombrott med "Head Hunters", som ett tag var tidernas mest sålda jazzskiva. Han spelar själv ett antal synthezisers och keyboards, dessutom medverkar Bennie Maupin ts/ss/saxello/fl/b-cl, Paul Jackson el-b/marimbula, Harvey Mason dr och Bill Summers perc. "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....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." (Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com)Speltid 41:34. Begagnad . Ägaretikett baksidan.