Head Hunters Album
Head hunters was a pivotal point in herbie hancock s career bringing him into the vanguard of jazz fusion.
Head hunters album. Hancock s idea for head hunters involved making a funk album with players who brought many other worlds to the table. 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.
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Head hunters is an album by herbie hancock released in 1973 on columbia records. Columbia ck 65123 legacy ck 65123 columbia 01 065123 10 legacy 01 065123 10.
The album is a key release in hancock s career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz fusion structure and release. Vein melter 32 35 personnel herbie hancock fender rhodes electric piano hohner d 6 clavinet arp.
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