Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
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Free Music Review: A true classic
Hit: 5 Stars
I have always loved this album. I finally got it on CD after several vinyl copies. One of the most original musical works ever made. There are traces of Funk, Soul, Jazz, Blues, Electronica and more. One could say this album layed the groundwork for so much Electronic music in the past four decades. The heart of this album is the fact that all the musicians can really play with a lot of passion and fire. "Chameleon " is my favorite song on this album, a super funk masterpiece. In it's time a lot of people dismissed it as a passing phase, but thirty something years later it is still a vital and important album in American music. I am sure this album will have a very long life span. I would imagine a huge amount of musicians from several eras were influenced by this album. On some albums the influence is extremly obvious. I find it amazing how fresh the music on this CD sounds after all these years. The production has such a clean and modern sound, especially considering the fact that when Head Hunters was recorded, technology was pretty primative. Simply a great album. If you like this kind of music, it is a must have.Free Music Review: Influential and Forward-Thinking.
Hit: 5 Stars
Like many albums of its genre, Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters" is so influential, that newer musicians liberally borrow its style without even knowing it. Once a member of Miles Davis's incredible quintet of the 1960's, Hancock branched out into his own and released a series of albums that experimentally fused jazz with funky vibes. "Headhunters" is probably the most successful and definitely the most popular. The opening bassline of the funky 15 minute "Chameleon" sets the tone for the rest of the album as a timeless journey through some forward-thinking soul. "Watermelon Man," replete with an arsenal of pretty flutes before the bass kicks in, has been sampled and distorted numerous times, most successfully by Madonna, who used this groove in her 1994 song "Sanctuary." Though the album clocks in at just over 40 minutes and has only 4 tracks, Hancock's "Head Hunters" packs a greater punch than many albums at twice the length. You can do your CD collection no wrong by picking this one up. It's an influential masterpiece.Free Music Review: A Must-Have Jazz Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Head Hunters is truly one of the elite members of the exclusive list of must-have jazz albums. Just as no collection is complete without Coltraine's Giant Steps, Miles' Kind of Blue and Brubeck's Time Out, it is equally lacking without this essential offering from Herbie.
To say the music is good is an understatement. The music is genius. One of the main goals of Head Hunters was minimalism; that is, how to produce a great groove using only the fewest components. That goal has been met with great success.
Chameleon, the first track of the album, was so good it was reworked and performed by dozens of other artists from Buddy Rich to Maynard Ferguson. Each version is exciting and powerful on its own merits, but the original is still a marvelous thing to behold.
Herbie follows up with a trio of excellent offerings including a reworking of his previous Watermellon Man and adding tracks Sly and Vein Melter to round out the mix. The result is simply magical.
Free Music Review: blast from the past
Hit: 5 Stars
About a month ago the tune "Watermelon Man" popped in my head. I didn't recognize the title, however. Thankfully my wife's aunt was there as I hummed the tune (she's about 20 years older than me; I was born in 1970). She identified it and told me it was from Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters." I immediately went to Amazon to find the Herbie Hancock title. When I saw it, I immediately recognized the cover as the same cover that haunted me (quite literally!) as a little boy in the early 70's as I looked through my parent's record collection. I ordered the CD and have been enjoying it ever since. I loved the music as a boy but now I really appreciate the ingenuity and creativity of Hancock's jazz funk fusion. The sounds and intricacies of the music are exquisite. Hancock's creation is genius. And his appeal is timeless. My son, who is a rap artist, loves it. Great music from a true musical giant.Free Music Review: NOTHING LIKE IT BEFORE OR AFTER
Hit: 5 Stars
I was a big afro'ed 13 year old kid in high school ( 1973 ) listening to all of the 'hot' radio stuff when some wild, always blitzed-out dude named Danny Andrews wandered late into art class and handed me a cassette: "Hey man, get over all that Jackson 5 stuff and check this out!" Well for starters the cover of the LP was weird enough, but when I heard the first thumpin' INSANELY funky MELODIC bass lines of Chameleon "boam boam boam boam BOAM BOAM..." I was hooked. That song in and of itself can take you on a sonic journey and flip you around! The coolest part is when the song turns into a straight ahead jazz jam then freaks back out into the funk space thing....unreal. The rest of the album is also unreal - this album seriously changed my life for the better and I always come back to this album/cd for a mental refresher. There is simply nothing else to compare this record to...