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| 1. | Hindewhu for You
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| 2. | Slick It
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| 3. | God Made Me Funky
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| 4. | Headhunting
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| 5. | BPM
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| 6. | Everything
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| 7. | Loft Funk
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| 8. | On the Shores of Amore
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| 9. | Take No Prizzonerz
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| 10. | Gotta Be Strong
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| 11. | Woody Shaw
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| 12. | Fonkyfried (If the Bluenotes Don't Gitcha)
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| 13. | Martell on the Rocks
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| 14. | Nutcracker
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| 15. | Yekola
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| 16. | Evolution Revolution
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Jazz
The Headhunters
with
Bill Summers - Engineer, Hinedewho, Mixing, Percussion, Producer, Vocals (Background)
Mike Clark - Drums, Mixing, Producer
Paul Jackson, Jr. - Bass, Clavinet, Mixing, Organ, Producer, Vocals
Special guests:
Harvey Mason, Jr. - Engineer, Keyboards, Producer
Harvey Mason, Sr. - Drums, Engineer, Producer
Bennie Maupin - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
Guest artists:
Aaron Fletcher - Sax (Alto)
Bill Solley - Guitar
Donald Harrison - Sax (Alto), Sax (Tenor)
Edwin Livingston - Bass, Bass (Acoustic)
George Porter, Jr. - Vocals
Irvin Mayfield - Trumpet
June Yamagishi - Guitar
Nicholas Payton - Piano
Ronald Markham - Keyboards, Piano
Samba Ngo - Guitar
Shinji Shiotsugu - Guitar
Victor Atkins - Associate Producer, Piano
Wah Wah Watson - Guitar
* Brian Maratea - Engineer
* Mac Bowne - Engineer, Production Assistant
* Mark Peters - Assistant Engineer
* Mark Samuels - Executive Producer
* Vlado Meller - Mastering
* William Samuels - Associate Executive Producer
Only two members, percussionist Bill Summers and bassist Paul Jackson, remain from the band that backed Herbie Hancock on his 1973 Head Hunters album, which simultaneously breathed life into the flabby and already moribund jazz fusion genre and demonstrated that jazz recordings could actually make money. But the band's attitude of joyful eclecticism and funky exuberance that animated the first project is still there (even if Hancock isn't), and it is abundantly apparent on Evolution Revolution. That's not to say that every track is essential; on the contrary, Jackson's vocals on "God Made Me Funky" are rather lame, "Everything" is nothing special, and the one-chord blues of "Fonkyfried" manages somehow to be simultaneously abrasive and boring. But almost every other track is a rich, fragrant stew of percolating beats and variegated musical elements, from the harmonic complexity of the horn charts on "Loft Funk" to the gorgeous African polyphony on the chorus of "Yekola" and the bouncing, layered rhythms of "Nutcracker." As with so many releases on the Basin Street label, there is an overall feeling of warmth and joy to this album that keeps you hooked even through its less than essential moments. Recommended.
---Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
The Headhunters
Active Decades: '70s and '90s
Born: 1973
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Funk, Jazz-Funk, Worldbeat, Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Crossover Jazz
The Headhunters represented a major turning point for Herbie Hancock, whose approach to fusion became slicker and more commercial (though not without substance or integrity) with the formation of this popular band in 1973. Before that, the chameleonic pianist/keyboardist had been leading a daring unit called the Sextant, which fused jazz, R&B and rock with world music and took more than its share of chances. But regrettably, the Sextant's three albums for Warner Bros. were modest sellers at best, so in 1973, he disbanded the Sextant and formed the Headhunters. Employing saxman/clarinetist Bennie Maupin (a holdover from the Sextant), bassist Paul Jackson, Jr., drummer Harvey Mason and percussionist Bill Summers, Hancock made a point of being more accessible when he unveiled the Headhunters with his 1973 Columbia date Head Hunters. Fusing jazz with funk and rock, the album sold over a million copies and attracted many R&B and rock fans. In fact, Head Hunters even outsold Miles Davis' popular Bitches Brew. Defined by the catchy "Chameleon" (which was interpreted by jazz singer Eddie Jefferson in 1976 and sampled by various rappers in the 1980s and 1990s) and a funky remake of his 1962 boogaloo "Watermelon Man," Headhunters set the tone for subsequent Columbia projects with the Headhunters, including Thrust (1974), Man-Child (1975), Secrets (1976) and Sunlight (1977). By the end of the decade, the Headhunters were no more, and Hancock was turning his attention to everything from outright R&B to standards and acoustic post-bop. In the 1990s, Sony's Legacy label reissued most of the Headhunters' work on CD, and in 1998 the group reunited to record Return of the Headhunters!
---Alex Henderson, All Music Guide |
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