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*** The Headhunters - Sugar Club - this Sat 24th Feb***

  • 22-02-2007 11:24am
    #1
    Danny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 151 ✭✭


    Hey folks, ye`ve probably all heard the word floating around already but this is just a reminder.

    The Headhunters (Herbie Hancock’s legendary jazz-funk-fusion backing band from the 1970s) are coming to town this Saturday 24th Feb.

    If jazz–funk-fusion sounds a bit arty-farty worry not. Just think Sly`s groove with jazzier solos :D

    20070224_headhunters.jpg

    Visit http://www.choicecutsonline.com/upcoming/event-details.php?id=176 for all the details

    If pre-sales are anything to judge by his gig is definitely going to sell out so get your tickets today!

    Don’t say I didn’t warn ye

    Dan :D

    Here’s the best description of their classic Headhunters debut album:

    It was all about Sly Stone.

    Herbie Hancock - in a December 1996 essay included in the liner notes to Head Hunters - writes, "I started thinking about Sly Stone and how much I loved his music and how funky 'Thank You For Letting Me Be Myself' is. I was hearing that song over and over again."

    From that inspiration from one artist to another came this jazz-funk classic. Clean production, ample room for Bennie Maupin (reeds), Harvey Mason (drums) and Bill Summers (percussion) to stretch their solos, with bassist Paul Jackson pushing the rhythm and Hancock pulling down unique electronic sounds in the Fall 1973 recording sessions that produced this extraordinary album.

    Hancock is nothing less than superb on the classic Chameleon and Sly, the band's tribute to Sly Stone. The studio tricks on Chameleon are a special treat. Vein Melter covers a more jazzy terrain, while Watermelon Man produces some hot work from Mason and Summers.

    The 1970s brought a revolution of musical vision, with Head Hunters near the top of the pack in busting down the finite walls of sound and delivering infinite possibilities through a new generation of musicians who had jazz in their hearts and funk running through their veins.


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