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• It may be that Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters was not so well received by the jazz purists of his time. Nevertheless, it was a commercial and artistic success: it was the first jazz album to reach platinum status and was eventually even included in the archive of culturally especially valuable records by the American Library Of Congress. Even today, Hancock’s fusion jazz sounds as fresh and vital as when it was first released. Together with Miles Davis, the pianist and keyboarder had repeatedly expanded the boundaries of the avant-garde, but never before had he allowed himself to produce such a groovy sound as on Head Hunters.
  With Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock defined the genre of funk jazz in 1973, bringing together fusion and funk and making the synthesizer finally acceptable in jazz. Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown reso