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Herbie Hancock — Chameleon

Name: Chameleon
Description: Herbie Hancock formed the Headhunters after years playing avant-garde jazz with Miles Davis and on his own Blue Note records. Head Hunters was his deliberate embrace of Sly Stone and James Brown — a jazz musician taking funk seriously. It became the best-selling jazz album of its time and remains so, a distinction that has never been taken from it.

Head Hunters · 1973

Label: Columbia · Genre: Jazz / Jazz-Funk · Country: USA · From: New York, NY, North America

Herbie Hancock formed the Headhunters after years playing avant-garde jazz with Miles Davis and on his own Blue Note records. Head Hunters was his deliberate embrace of Sly Stone and James Brown — a jazz musician taking funk seriously. It became the best-selling jazz album of its time and remains so, a distinction that has never been taken from it.

Did you know: Hancock played all synthesizer parts himself using a new instrument he'd never recorded with before: the ARP Odyssey. He learned it in the studio during the recording sessions. The alien tone on Chameleon was a happy accident during experimentation.

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