Album Facts
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (200G) Vinyl LP
200 gram ultra fidelity pressing of Herbie's most iconic album
Price $50.00
Format 1xLP 200g
Label Music on Vinyl
UPC 753088008412
Color Black
Year 2015
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
Album Facts
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters (200G) Vinyl LP
200 gram ultra fidelity pressing of Herbie's most iconic album
Price $50.00
Format 1xLP 200g
Label Music on Vinyl
UPC 753088008412
Color Black
Year 2015
Condition
Media condition
New/Mint
Sleeve condition
New/Mint
Head Hunters was a pivotal point in Herbie Hancock's career, bringing him into the vanguard of jazz fusion. Hancock had pushed avant-garde 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 it's rhythms were firmly planted in funk, soul, and R&B, giving it a mass appeal that made it the biggest-selling 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 decades after it's initial release, and it's genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop.
