Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
173,00 lei
Label: Music On Vinyl – MOVLP030, Legacy – 88697392181, Columbia – 88697392181
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered, 180 Gram
Country: Europe
Released: 26 Nov 2009
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Jazz-Funk
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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 album was a commercial and artistic breakthrough for Hancock, crossing over to funk and rock audiences and bringing jazz-funk fusion to mainstream attention, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard 200. Hancock is featured with his ‘Mwandishi’ saxophonist Bennie Maupin and new collaborators – bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers and drummer Harvey Mason. The latter group of collaborators, which would go on to be known as The Headhunters, also played on Hancock’s subsequent studio album Thrust (1974). All of the musicians (with the exception of Mason) play multiple instruments on the album.
In 2005, the album was ranked number 498 in the book version of Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. While it was not included in Rolling Stone’s original 2003 online version of the list, nor the 2012 revision, it was ranked number 254 in their 2020 reboot of the list. Head Hunters was a key release in Hancock’s career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz, and has been an inspiration not only for jazz musicians, but also to funk, soul music, jazz funk and hip hop artists. The Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry, which collects “culturally, historically or aesthetically important” sound recordings from the 20th century.
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