HEADHUNTER
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Topic: HEADHUNTER
Posted By: DallasBryan
Subject: HEADHUNTER
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 18:38
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Herbie Hancock - Headhunter
Hancock's first true fusion release, which basically means taking the most accessible elements of the Sextet period and making more effective use of synthesizers. It works brilliantly on the extended "Chameleon," as drummer Harvey Mason sets up a novel, funky rhythm all the band members solo over; a new version of "Watermelon Man" is understated, without its signature piano riff. The second side's not quite as good, with the two ten-minute tunes veering toward the rambling pseudofunk Davis was releasing during this period (of course, if you love Davis' early 70's work you'll love this too). The band is Paul Jackson on electric bass, Harvey Mason on drums, Bill Summers on all kinds of percussion (including a beer bottle), and Bennie Maupin on a variety of woodwinds. |
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Posted By: maani
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 20:37
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DB: Please! I know you know better than this. If an artist is not listed on the site, please open the thread under "non-prog music lounge." Thanks. Peace. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 20:49
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OK, understood, didnt quite understand the criteria.
You know me! I think everything I like is PROG! 
Mi comprende, por favor! 
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 21:12
i only know krokus - headhunter! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 21:32
This album might be one of the grooviest ever recorded. It's just so much fun to listen to!
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 21:43
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also Airto Moreira - The Other Side of This is a great
album too! Tribal funk with the best percussionists in the world.....Zakir, Mickey Hart, Kitaro, etc! |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 23:04
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Funny thing about Headhunter is ... that while I like it, I actually prefer both the preceeding album ... the far-out Sextant (recorded by Herbie's sextet Mwandishi) and the ultra-funky Thrust ... Pity the great man went downhill so fast after these records ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: June 12 2005 at 23:44
I don't about that!  He may have parted fusion somewhat, but he still maintained a high respect as a jazz musician. Did you ever see the film Round Midnight he did with Dexter Gordon and John McLaughlin. Great film. He won an Oscar for the soundtrack. Let's not forget the groundbreaking Future Shock album he did in '81. I'll agree his work over the last 20-25 years has not been progressive as it was, but he's still a legend.
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Trotsky wrote:Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 03:34
Yup, I guess it's a matter of taste, like you I think Herbie will always be a great musician ... It's just that I have much greater regard for his first three phases (the acoustic Blue Note albums like My Point Of View, Maiden Voyage, Empryean Isles and Speak Like A Child), the experimental Mwandishi phase (Mwandishi, Sextant, etx) and the jazz-funk Headhunters (Headhunters and Thrust) and indeed his fantastic late 60s work with Miles' second great quintet ... than I do for the late 70s attempts to blend in soul and disco or the 80s stuff like Future Shock (although there are parts of Dis Is Da Drum that i enjoy) ... again I respect his choice to evolve ... it's just that after a while he evolved in a direction that I didn't enjoy that much ... I don't expect Herbie Hancock to ever not be a great performer, but I suspect he's done making music that I will get excited about ... in that sense, to me, he went downhill fast ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 03:59
An outstanding fusion jazz album with furious experimental and funky keyboards...this is really progressive in the spirit ------------- 
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Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: June 13 2005 at 09:30
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If it were from England would it be called the
Hancockian Scene?
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