{"product_id":"herbie-hancock-headhunters-lp-180g-33rpm-analogue-productions-audiophile-edition","title":"Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters LP (Analogue Productions, 33rpm, 180g, Remastered by Ryan Smith) ( VINYL )","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cheader data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e180g Vinyl Mastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePressed at Quality Record Pressings!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\u003cheader data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 254\/500!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere are few artists in the music industry who have had more influence on acoustic and electronic jazz and R\u0026amp;B than Herbie Hancock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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 Bitches Brew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHancock's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHead Hunters became not only Hancock's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHancock took over all synthesizer duties, along with Fender Rhodes and clavinet and was backed by bass and drums. The opening bars of \"Watermelon Man\" with Bill Summers blowing into a beer bottle, along with the band's funky grooves and new electric sounds, captured the crossover fans who had otherwise avoided buying jazz records.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHead Hunters was a pivotal point in 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 its rhythms were firmly planted in funk, soul and R\u0026amp;B, giving it a mass appeal that made it the biggest-selling jazz album of all time (a record which was later broken).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJazz 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"features\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e180g Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMastered at Sterling Sound by Ryan Smith\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePressed at Quality Record Pressings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStoughton Printing old-style deluxe film-lamination tip-on jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMeticulous test pressing evaluation and quality control\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHighest-quality jackets and rice paper inner sleeves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","brand":"32 - Elusive Disc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56735397577077,"sku":"753088008412","price":6.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8300\/2485\/files\/headhunters_600x_901fdd5a-80fc-47a0-91b2-11178ed38f51.webp?v=1770948033","url":"https:\/\/warmvibevinyls.com\/products\/herbie-hancock-headhunters-lp-180g-33rpm-analogue-productions-audiophile-edition","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}