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Album Details: Head Hunters (Remastered)

Release Date:05/08/2001
Label:Sony
UPC:074644747829

Track List: Head Hunters (Remastered)

  1. Chameleon  
  2. Watermelon Man  
  1. Sly  
  2. Vein Melter  

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  • Overall:

    Influential and forward thinking

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Oct 15, 2006

    Pros: One of Herbie's finer albums from the 1970s

    Cons: None

    Like many albums of its genre, Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters" is so influential, that newer musicians liberally borrow its style without even knowing it. Once a member of Miles Davis's incredible quintet of the 1960's, Hancock ...branched out into his own and released a series of albums that experimentally fused jazz with funky vibes. "Headhunters" is probably the most successful and definitely the most popular. The opening bassline of the funky 15 minute "Chameleon" sets the tone for the rest of the album as a timeless journey through some forward-thinking soul. "Watermelon Man," replete with an arsenal of pretty flutes before the bass kicks in, has been sampled and distorted numerous times, most successfully by Madonna, who used this groove in her 1994 song "Sanctuary." Though the album clocks in at just over 40 minutes and has only 4 tracks, Hancock's "Head Hunters" packs a greater punch than many albums at twice the length. You can do your CD collection no wrong by picking this one up. It's an influential masterpiece. Read more Less

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    Head Hunters

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Aug 17, 2001

    Check out percussionist Bill Summers. The intro on of Watermellon man is wild! Bill blows into empty coke bottles to create the polyrhythmic effects. Bill also had a fine Berkeley based band "Bill Summers and Summer's Heat" featuring Rodney Franklin ...and Ray Obiedo among others. Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: Head Hunters (Remastered)

  • All Music Guide

    Head Hunters was a pivotal point in Herbie Hancock's career, bringing him into the vanguard of jazz fusion. Hancock had pushed avantgarde 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 RB, giving it a mass appeal that made it the biggestselling 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 two decades after its initial release, and its genrebending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hiphop. - St...ephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Herbie Hancock

Herbie Hancock will always be one of the most revered and controversial figures in jazz -- just as his employer/mentor Miles Davis was when he was alive. Unlike Miles, who pressed ahead relentlessly and never looked back until near the very end, Hancock has cut a zigzagging forward path, shuttling between almost every development in electronic and acoustic jazz and RB o... Read more
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