Herbie Hancock: Chameleon

Herbie Hancock: Chameleon
Label: Columbia Records
Catalog#: KC 32731
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: US
Released: 1973
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Jazz-Funk
From: Chameleon41

Herbie Hancock at the very start of his Jazz-Funk Period. Headhunters, the album Chameleon is from, is reportedly the greatest selling Jazz album of all time. The most unusual thing about Headhunters for me is that it was recorded about 5 months after Sextant. While Sextant is a very dark, moody, spaced out abstract album Headhunters is much more straight ahead funk. I think most Jazz fans at the time felt Herbie was selling out to commercial success. Personally I think somebody with that much funk in them "just gots to be funky" :) All throughout Headhunter you can hear Herbie playing on the Arp Soloist, Arp Odyssey, Fender Rhodes and Hohner Clavinet... so all in all jazz had become almost completey plugged in.

check out Hebie Hancock: Headhunters