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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]
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 ...
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]
"Chameleon" is a jazz fusion standard composed by Herbie Hancock with Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason, [3] all of whom also performed the original 15:44 full-length version on the 1973 album Head Hunters, [4] and featuring solos by Hancock and Maupin.
Members of the American jazz fusion band The Headhunters. Pages in category "The Headhunters members" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The Headhunters Speakers in the House: Ropeadope 2023 Leon Lee Dorsey (with Russell Malone, Mike Clark) Cantaloupe Island: Jazz Avenue 1 2023 Mike Clark (with Jon Davis, Leon Lee Dorsey) Plays Herbie Hancock: Sunnyside 2023 Mike Clark (with Eddie Henderson, Skerik, Wayne Horvitz, Henry Franklin, Bill Summers) Kosen Rufu: Wide Hive: 2024
The band decided to name themselves The Headhunters, taking the name from the term "headchopper," which blues musician Muddy Waters used to indicate that he had supplanted another band in a gig. After discovering that other bands existed with that name, the band added "Kentucky" to its name and thus became The Kentucky Headhunters.
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 .