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	Amazon.co.uk: Head Hunters: Music: Herbie Hancock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Head Hunters, however, was something different: a stripped-down date featuring reedman Bennie Maupin as the only horn player, and a funk-oriented rhythm section made up of Paul Jackson, Harvey Mason, and Bill Summers.
		This album encapsulates all that was great about 70s fusion, the desire to find new routes through soul, disco, funk, jazz etc. Hancock has proved an absolute master at this - totally at ease in any genre, here he presents the pinnacle of two of the most important american genres: jazz and funk.
		Head Hunters is not a perfect album(witness the drums and the bass disagreeing over tempo after the electric piano solo on Chameleon, or Vein Melter's dodgy synth strings), but I like to think that no other jazz-funk album, Hancock's or anyone elses, has ever surpassed it.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Head-Hunters-Herbie-Hancock/dp/B000024F6K (1384 words)

	The Headhunters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Their debut album Head Hunters is one of the best-selling jazz records of all time.
		The concert was released as an album in 1977.
		Although the Headhunters' albums were often belitted as "pop" by purist jazz critics at the time, it is now widely accepted that they were significantly influenced by, and made a significant contribution to, the "serious jazz" canon.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Headhunters (1010 words)

	Head Hunters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Head Hunters is an album by Herbie Hancock, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music) on Columbia Records.
		The album is a key release in Hancock's career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz fusion.
		At the time of the 1992 CD reissue it was the largest-selling jazz album of all time, and has been an inspiration not only for jazz musicians, but also to funk, soul music, jazz funk and hip hop artists.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Head_Hunters_(album) (527 words)

	Eye Weekly - jazzola - 09.17.98
		For his second Columbia album, Head Hunters, reissued last year, Hancock formed a quintet whose lone holdover from Sextant was Maupin (sans hum-a-zoo).
		Head Hunters was slicker, more overtly funky and much easier to digest than its wayward predecessor, a move that paid off big-time; supposedly, it's the best-selling jazz album ever.
		This album seems to have all the ingredients but none of the inspiration of Head Hunters and Thrust (let alone Sextant).
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_09.17.98/music/jazzola17.html (727 words)

	Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock - Song Listings
		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.
		Jazz purists, of course, decried the experiments at the time, but Head Hunters still sounds fresh and vital decades after its initial release, and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz, but funk, soul, and hip-hop.
	www.mp3.com /albums/107514/summary.html (386 words)

	Jazz CDs at Misic Hills.com
		I see that mostly everyone is rating this album 5 stars, so I must be wrong but I just don't...
		Released in 1969, this album marks Miles full blown emergence into the realm of jazz rock...
		When I first heard this album here, I thought it was a tight compliation and gave this a 5 star...
	www.music-hills.com /Jazz-34_1.htm (877 words)

	Herbie Hancock Summary
		Of the three electronically sounded albums, Sextant is probably the most experimental since the Arp synthesizers are used extensively and some advanced improvisation ("post-modal free impressionism") is found on the tracks "Hornets" and "Hidden Shadows" (which is in the meter 19/4).
		The album Head Hunters, released in 1973, was a major hit and crossed over to pop audiences, though it prompted criticism from some jazz fans.
		Albums such as Monster (1980), Magic Windows (1981), and Lite Me Up (1982) were some of Hancock's most criticized and unwelcomed albums, the market at the time being somewhat saturated with similar pop-jazz hybrids from the likes of former bandmate Freddie Hubbard.
	www.bookrags.com /Herbie_Hancock (4376 words)

	Ground and Sky review - Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
		Even given that those three albums were released in three different decades (1964, 1973 and 1983 respectively), it's hard to believe that they all come from the same artist.
		Head Hunters falls somewhere in between: it's commercial sounding and very funky, but also sounds a lot more like jazz fusion than Future Shock does.
		He didn't sell a lot of albums in the process, though, and it was his ambition to reach a wider audience that led him to conceive of going in a dance-funk direction.
	www.progreviews.com /reviews/display.php?rev=hh-hh (1337 words)

	Herbie Hancock St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Along with Miles Davis, he helped create the style known as jazz fusion in the late 1960s and, as a solo artist during the early 1970s, Hancock was one of the first to pioneer the use of synthesizers within jazz.
		From 1969 to 1972,; the Mwandishi band explored funk and rock fusion, and was one of the first jazz groups to use a synthesizer, specifically the Moog.
		During the rest of the 1980s and 1990s, Hancock released a handful of modestly-selling albums, which included the world music fusion of Ids Is DA Drum and, in 1998, an album by the re-formed Headhunters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200513 (598 words)

	Phish.Net Recommended Music List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Notes: After a listen to this album, it is impossible not to appreciate the arranging genius of Duke Ellington.
		His albums point to new directions for all who are interested in music.
		Notes: This album features an incredible group of musicians who are mostly improvising all the way through.
	filebox.vt.edu /j/jmorrill/PhishNet/jazz.html (917 words)

	Steven F. Pond: Head Hunters, University of Michigan Press
		"Head Hunters uses Herbie Hancock's famous 1973 album as a jumping-off point for considering broader aesthetic and historiographical issues.
		Digging deeply into the many expected and unexpected fusions that produced the music on this iconic 'Jazz Fusion' album, Steve Pond achieves more than writing Head Hunters squarely into the jazz tradition-remarkably, he makes a case for 'fusing' as a preferred framework for rethinking jazz classification.
		Unabashedly scholarly, yet as gripping and readable as the album is unapologetically popular and danceable, this book will be gobbled up like a musicological mystery novel that incites and invites readers to listen again and rethink 'who-done-it' and how in the jazz history we thought we knew."
	www.press.umich.edu /titleDetailPraise.do?id=17500 (425 words)

	The Daily Athenaeum Interactive
		In the world of jazz, there is no one better at bucking the system than Herbie Hancock, as he proved with his landmark album, Head Hunters.
		The handpicked Head Hunters band left nothing in its wake, as it absolutely destroyed the barriers between jazz and funk with a dynamic new sound for that era.
		One of the first albums released by John Lennon after the messy breakup of The Beatles, Plastic Ono Band is a snapshot of the Lennon struggling to deal with this and many other personal issues.
	www.da.wvu.edu /archives/010709/news/010709,07,04.html (547 words)

	offBeat
		In 1973, he released his funk jazz masterpiece, Head Hunters, which became the best selling jazz album in history up to that point.
		His latest album, Possibilities, is a star-studded session project featuring John Mayer, Sting, Annie Lennox, Paul Simon, Raul Midón, Carlos Santana, Angelique Kidjo, Christina Aguilera and Trey Anastasio that had just been reconfigured as a DVD including a lot of biographical material.
		I know that he and some of the other guys from the band are doing a Head Hunters thing.
	offbeat.com /artman/publish/article_1474.shtml (1957 words)

	VH1.com : Herbie Hancock : Biography - Urge Music Downloads
		The next step, then, was a terrific funk group whose first album, Head Hunters, with its Sly Stone-influenced hit single, "Chameleon," became the biggest-selling jazz LP up to that time.
		Hancock recorded several electric albums of mostly superior quality in the '70s, followed by a wrong turn into disco around the decade's end.
		After his 1988 techno-pop album, Perfect Machine, Hancock left Columbia (his label since 1973), signed a contract with Qwest that came to virtually nothing (save for A Tribute to Miles in 1992), and finally made a deal with PolyGram in 1994 to record jazz for Verve and release pop albums on Mercury.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/hancock_herbie/bio.jhtml (687 words)

	Jambands.com \| CD Reviews \| Future 2 Future - Herbie Hancock \| 2002-03-20
		And yet, falling in between his stint playing with Miles and his landmark Head Hunters album, Herbie's visionary contribution to the evolution of modern dance music has been largely overlooked, at least within his own jazz/fusion community, which, until fairly recently, has had little use for its rigid, mechanical aesthetic.
		But nobody on this album is a slouch, and it'd be tough for some of these combinations of musicians not to yield a track worth listening to.
		While the album's few vocal melodies are good enough, the lyrics are regrettable, and the spoken pieces - the track "Wisdom" is a 33-second reading from a Buddhist text, and the otherwise cool "Tony Williams" bears the pretentious stamp of poetess Dana Bryant - are borderline cringe-inducing.
	www.jambands.com /CDReviews/content_2002_03_21.00.phtml (1257 words)

	Amazon.com: Head Hunters: Music: Herbie Hancock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Back in 1968 and 1969, Miles saw where music was heading, and as usual he was at the forefront of it all.
		He was planning his crowning glory, the one album that would get his music across to a younger group of fans currently grooving to people like Sly, James Brown, George Clinton, and Curtis Mayfield, and place himself (and therefore much of jazz) firmly in that camp.
		The heart of this album is the fact that all the musicians can really play with a lot of passion and fire.
	www.amazon.com /Head-Hunters-Herbie-Hancock/dp/B000002AGP (2195 words)

	Herbie Hancock goes beyond Jazz with his latest album - Screen-Gems
		But with the release of his new album, "Possibilities," Hancock ups the crossover ante.
		Hancock is fully aware of the comparisons likely to be made between the two albums, especially with the Starbucks connection and the duets.
		On the album Hancock works with Sting to reimagine the latter's "Sister Moon" with African flavors arranged by Benin-born guitarist Lionel Loueke, and with Simon to re-envision his "I Do It for Your Love" with subtly layered percussion.
	www.screen-gems.net /showthread.php?t=1153 (572 words)

	Phade... - Hip Hop/Rap music and Urban Entertainment
		She said 'dark is not the opposite of light, it's the absence of light'.
		im gonna go with shred on your question, head hunters is one of the funnest records i can think of but sly is in a league of his own, especially if you aren't gonna specify a certain album and just let me go off everything the familys produced.
		now as far as favorite album, i really didn't want to do this, one album immediately popped into my head when i read your question but last nite i went through all my jazz records in hopes to find something i could honestly place as higher then kind of blue but i didn't find any.
	www.rapflava.com /forums/phade-90403.html (2152 words)

	Amazon.fr : Head Hunters: Musique: Herbie Hancock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Pour head hunters, le mieux est peut-être de commencer par préciser que je ne suis pas un fan attitré d'Hancock, loin de là.
		Head Hunters, à mi-chemin du jazz et du funk, est un véritable tremplin vers l’un ou l’autre de ces deux styles musicaux.
		Pour ceux qui, comme moi, font tout a l’envers, cet album est une porte grande ouverte vers de nouveaux horizons dans ce grand patrimoine qu’est le Jazz.
	www.amazon.fr /Head-Hunters-Herbie-Hancock/dp/B000024F6K (700 words)

	Betalogue » Blog Archive » Head Hunters (1973)
		Inevitably, both thoughts are immediately echoed by Herbie Hancock himself in the note he wrote for the 1997 rerelease on CD (the one I have).
		The whole album and “Chameleon” in particular were obviously inspired by funk and by Sly’s music in particular.
		And what I hear is a clavinet, of course, which, as Herbie Hancock puts it, is a cross “between a guitar and a harpsichord”.
	www.betalogue.com /?p=256 (329 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Arts + Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Yep, it’s the same Headhunters who teamed with Herbie Hancock for the groundbreaking Head Hunters album, the 1973 release that gave jazz fusion its legs (and vaulted “Watermelon Man” into its current spot atop the high-school marching band canon).
		They’re touring behind Evolution Revolution, which finds Hunters Bill Summers (percussion), Mike Clark (drums), and Paul Jackson (bass) teaming with the likes of Nicholas Payton, George Porter, Jr., and Congolese guit-slinger Samba Ngo to deliver an album full of 21st century funk.
		There’s jazz in there too, and avant-jazz, and world beat, and even a touch of schmaltz, but mostly it’s an album in the holy pursuit of a groove.
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/08_03/08_06_03/art_gordos.html (806 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Herbie Hancock
		When the 22-year old Hancock began recording his first album that same year -- a collection of cover songs -- his compositional skills were so impressive that Blue Note Records co-founder Alfred Lions urged him to focus solely on originals.
		Thus, Hancock's debut album, Takin' Off, became the first debut album in Blue Note's history to contain all original compositions.
		Mwandishi recorded two albums for Warner Brothers before Hancock made another label switch, this time to Columbia Records -- the label documents much of his better known fusion works.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/hancock.html (1106 words)

	TIME.com: Improvising on the Beat -- Jul 8, 1974 -- Page 1
		Today at 34, Hancock heads the most sought-after jazz combo in the U.S. No more warming up the audience for the headliners at all-too-infrequent concert dates.
		For his current record company, Columbia, he turned out an LP album, Head Hunters, which as of last week had sold 700,000 copies.
		That is more than many a hot rock act sells these days—more than any other album by a jazz performer has ever sold.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,943917,00.html (818 words)

	Basin Street Records :: Headhunters (Bill Summers, Paul Jackson, Mike Clark)
		Following the release of the groundbreaking Head Hunters (1973) the first album to garner gold status in jazz history, the band toured and recorded for several years with legendary pianist Herbie Hancock, releasing the masterpieces Thrust (1974), Flood (1975), and Manchild (1975).
		The album showcases the incredible musical synergy which brought them world fame in the 70s.
		His groundbreaking work on the Headhunters Thrust album drew attention to his singular style, elevating him to international cult status.
	www.basinstreetrecords.com /artists/headhunters.html (711 words)

	Brooks & Dunn not true honkytonkers - ALBUM REVIEWS - MSNBC.com
		So it is for the 60-year-old British bluesman’s aptly titled “Back Home,” which brings into sharp focus the reflections of a music man of four decades who has grown to value home and family above all else in the twilight of his years.
		To make that point, the album’s opening track “So Tired” doesn’t chronicle the bone-deep fatigue a seemingly endless string of show nights would bring.
		As much as the album is a reflection, it’s also homage to the songs that move Clapton just as those life-changing blues die.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/9120134 (900 words)

	Dance & DJ CDs at Misic Hills.com
		What I like about DJ Shadow's album "Entroducing..." is that his music blends in the...
		This album is good from start to finish.
		This is one of those albums, which i bought back in 2001 that still has no dust settling on it...
	www.music-hills.com /Dance-DJ-7_1.htm (834 words)

	Head Honcho : iSOUND.COM™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Around the early part of this century, it became customary when mentioning the name Head Honcho!!, to raise both hands in the air like a crazed NFL umpire signaling a touchdown.
		Some believe this bizarre tradition to be born of an ancient African tribal greeting head hunters
		Some believe this bizarre tradition to be born of an ancient African tribal greeting head hunters gave before gobbling unsuspecting tourists, however most believe it came from the unpredictable happenings of Ole' Bleedin' Ear McMurphy.
	www.isound.com /head_honcho (186 words)

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