Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Herbie Hancock's August 14 performance of "Head Hunters" at the Hollywood Bowl marks the first time in 50 years that the jazz ...

For the first time in 50 years, jazz icon Herbie Hancock will reunite with the surviving players from his Head Hunters recording: Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin and Bill Summers, in addition to bassist ...

In 1973, jazz great Herbie Hancock put together a new backing band and made an album that engaged directly with the vanguard of popular music. The funky, accessible Head Hunters became a landmark of ...

First, a bit of history. Prior to Head Hunters, Hancock spent the `60s enjoying an enviable career recording as a leader for Blue Note Records, recording and touring as the pianist on Miles Davis’ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TheGrio examines how Herbie Hancock's "Head Hunters" album signaled a funky turn in so-called jazz music and stood out from the ...

Herbie Hancock has a long history in the Bay Area. The legendary jazz man recorded a number of his finest albums of the ’70s in San Francisco, including “Thrust,” “Sextant,” “Mwandishi” and — arguably ...

Harvey Mason shares the story behind the creation of Herbie Hancock’s Head Hunters. He explains how Herbie contacted him after hearing him play, invited him to join the project, and how the band ...

On the landmark 1973 album Head Hunters, keyboardist Herbie Hancock led an ensemble consisting of woodwinds player Bennie Maupin, bassist Paul Jackson, drummer Harvey Mason, and percussionist Bill ...

With the half-century anniversaries of Herbie Hancock's work with the Headhunters having passed in roughly the last year--Head Hunters (Columbia, 1973) and Thrust (Columbia, 1974)--it is appropriate ...

In 1969, Miles Davis released his album, “In a Silent Way.” While he had already slowly started incorporating electric instrumentation into his work a couple of years before, “In a Silent Way” set the ...