Head Hunters - 180g 45RPM - Sealed Herbie Hancock 2-LP (Doubl

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    ARTIST: HERBIE HANCOCK TITLE: Head Hunters - 180g 45RPM - Sealed DESCRIPTION: HERBIE HANCOCK Head Hunters (Finally back in print for 2020 the limited edition Analogue Productions stereo 180gm 2-LP set at 45RPM mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan K. Smith plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. The all time classic album first released in 1973 including Chameleon an updated Watermelon Man and the jazz-dancers favourite Sly - all presented in astounding analogue audiophile quality from start to end one track per side. Gatefold picture sleeve with original art factory sealed in its perforated
loose bag with all 3 hype stickers attached. A beauty!)

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TRACKLISTING: Herbie Hancocks masterpiece now cut at 45 RPM!

The second highest-selling jazz album of all time!

Mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan K. Smith

Double LP 180-gram discs plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings!

Stoughton Printing old-style deluxe film lamination tip-on jacket

There are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R&B than Herbie Hancock.

In 1963 Miles Davis invited Hancock to join the Miles Davis Quintet. During his five years with Davis Herbie recorded many classics with the jazz legend including ESP Nefertiti and Sorcerer and later on he made appearances on Davis groundbreaking In a Silent Way and Bi@ches Brew.

Hancocks own solo career blossomed on Blue Note with classic albums including Maiden Voyage Empyrean Isles and Speak Like a Child. After leaving Davis fold Herbie put together a new band called The Headhunters and in 1973 in San Francisco recorded Head Hunters.

Head Hunters became not only Hancocks best-selling album but also the second highest selling jazz album of all time (at last RIAA count). It was in 1973 that he gathered a new band to combine electric music with funk perhaps best exemplified in the pop music of Sly Stone.

Hancock took over all synthesizer duties along with Fender Rhodes and clavinet and was backed by bass and drums. The opening bars of &quotWatermelon Man" with Bill Summers blowing into a beer bottle along with the bands funky grooves and new electric sounds captured the crossover fans who had otherwise avoided buying jazz records.

Head Hunters was a pivotal point in Hancocks 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 its 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 four decades after its initial release and its genre-bending proved vastly influential on not only jazz but funk soul and hip-hop.


Tracks:

A1. Chameleon 15:43
A2. Watermelon Man 6:30
B3. Sly 10:19
B4. Vein Melter 9:10



FORMAT: 2-LP Vinyl Set RECORD LABEL: Analogue Productions CATALOGUE No: APJ084-45 COUNTRY: USA YEAR: 2020 ADDITIONAL INFO: N/A BARCODE: 753088008474 ALTERNATIVE ARTIST NAMES: N/A SELLER INFO: eil outlet [part of Esprit International Limited / EILare the world"s largest retailer for rare, used and hard to find vinyl, CD"s and music collectibles from the 60s, 70s, 80, 90s through to today,click here for our store.
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