Return of the Headhunters

Headhunters | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 7, 2005)
• Original Release Date: July 21, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000009DGF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,187 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't understand these bad reviews, June 13, 2003

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Jazzcat "stef" (Genoa, Italy Italy) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Return of the Headhunters (Audio CD)

Hey guys, can't you judge a thing for what it is? Do you have always to compare a thing to another one to have an idea about it? What kind of approach is it? Moreover different things are not comparable. Like this band and the first HH band. The first headhunters was a certain band. It came out in a a certain period when there was a some kind of electricity around. The idea of mixing jazz and funk was the new idea (Miles Davis did it a lot too) and the electronic instruments were the new things to put to torture test. C'mon. This is a completly different project for a completly different time. 1998 was not 1972! This album should be judged only for what it is. It is greatlyproduced smooth jazz-funk with great musicians involved and good atmospheres and songs. Good sounds too. N'dea Davenport is a great singer. She proved it here well. There is also space for some improvisation like in Premonition. I have the old HH records and this one. I appreciate both but I don't compare them. I enjoy both for their diversities. Why choose?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is killer fusion, August 27, 2003

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Tom (USA!!!!!!!) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Return of the Headhunters (Audio CD)

This is some killer fusion, starting it off with "Funk Hunter". Great funk styles here with everyone. The overdubbed bass licks from Paul Jackson to the solid drumming of Mike Clarke. It appears that most people are unreasonably hard on this project by comparing it to the original "Headhunters" recording released approx. twenty years earlier.
Come on folks, this is a great release for the nineties in the midst of all the hiphop dance music and the grunge sounds too. I honestly thought the "Return of the Headhunters" was released sometime in the later seventies. I was pleasantly surprised to see it was released in 98'. Bennie Maupin's horn work is fantastic. And there is no problem telling what tracks Herbie Hancock plays on as well.
It is nice to hear that Fusion is still being played this way and that these musicians still have the feel and chop to this style of jazz. I study this recording religiously every time I hear it. It never fails me, EVER! Enjoy!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars okay, November 9, 2001

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Sherance M. Brothers (Jasper, Alabama United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Return of the Headhunters (Audio CD)

to like this you must be a jazz fan, not spaced out, or edgey like their sesions back in the man child-thrust days but still listenable like i said to like this you must be a light jazz fan, still herbie, and the boys deserves props for being artound this long.