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Herbie Hancock’s August 14 performance of “Head Hunters” at the Hollywood Bowl marks the first time in 50 years that the jazz keyboardist and composer reunited with the collaborators that ...
Hancock had grown dissatisfied with his prior band, Mwandishi, and wanted to make a band with a stronger funk component. [1] He chose the name of the group, "Headhunters", while doing Buddhist chanting. [1] The name pleased him because it made a triple reference to the jungle, to intellectual concerns, and to sexual activity. [1]
Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by American pianist, keyboardist and composer Herbie Hancock, released October 26, 1973, on Columbia Records. Recording sessions for the album took place in the evening at Wally Heider Studios and Different Fur Trading Co. in San Francisco , California .
Hancock re-recorded "Watermelon Man" for Head Hunters (1973), combining synthesizers with a funk beat influenced by James Brown and Sly and the Family Stone, [13] adding an eight-bar section. Hancock described his approach to Down Beat magazine in 1979: "In the popular forms of funk, which I've been trying to get into, the attention is on the ...
TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters” album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from […] The post The future of fusion is funk: 50 years of Herbie ...
Platinum is an album by the jazz fusion band The Headhunters that was released in 2011. The album combines jazz and hip hop. [1] Track listing "Platinum Intro" (:50)
The Headhunters reunited with Hancock in 1998 for Return of the Headhunters, and a version of the band (featuring Jackson and Clark) continues to play and record. In 1973, Hancock composed his soundtrack to the controversial film The Spook Who Sat by the Door. [23] In the following year he composed the soundtrack to the first Death Wish film.
Survival of the Fittest is the debut album by jazz/funk quintet the Headhunters, released in 1975 on Arista Records.It features the track "God Make Me Funky", from which its drum break has been sampled numerous times by prominent rappers. [1]