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MOG Editorial Review

After starting out in a more traditional jazz background, Herbie Hancock evolved into one of the genre's most experimental innovators with the release of this 1973 classic. Though the four lengthy jams on Head Hunters are built on a foundation of jazz, Hancock and his band explored what was uncharted territory at the time, something that's immediately apparent on the appropriately titled "Chameleon." Making use of electronics, synths, and some seriously groovy guitar riffs, Hancock constructed a sound that felt like a cohesive mixture of jazz, funk, R&B, and even a little bit of the blues, and it still sounds fresh even today. Head Hunters was the birth of the Herbie Hancock we know and love today, and it also shows hints of what was to come, with traces of the hip-hop flavor we'd later hear on his biggest hit, "Rock It."
AMG Review of Head Hunters

Stephen Thomas Erlewine
All Music Guide

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