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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 .
The Cake; The Canadian Sweethearts; Canned Heat; Cannibal & the Headhunters; The Capitols; Captain Beefheart; Caravan; The Caravelles; Carla Thomas; Carlos Santana
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]
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 ...
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 ...
[5] [8] Head Hunters also contains Hancock's first mainstream hit, "Chameleon" (1974), which peaked at No. 35 on the RPM Canadian Singles Chart [9] and is a jazz standard. Other albums that followed in the style of Head Hunters with good popular success, especially in the US, were Thrust (1974) and Man-Child (1975), which ranked respectively No ...
[77] [78] The band's original compositions, such as "Dumas Walker" and the title track to Songs from the Grass String Ranch, often develop a regional theme. [ 8 ] At their peak in the early 1990s, The Kentucky Headhunters were considered a dark horse in country music, due to the significant mainstream attention that the band received despite ...
The UK Singles Chart is the official record chart in the United Kingdom. Prior to 1969 there was no official singles chart; [1] [2] [3] however, The Official Charts Company and Guinness' British Hit Singles & Albums regard the canonical sources as New Musical Express before 10 March 1960 and Record Retailer from then until 15 February 1969 when Retailer and the BBC jointly commissioned the ...