Head hunters : the making of jazz's first platinum album / Steven F. Pond

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Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 0-472-11417-4

ISBN : 978-0-472-11417-7

ISBN : 978-0-472-03448-2

EAN : 9780472034482

Hancock -- Herbie -- 1940-....

Hancock, Herbie (1940-....) -- Head hunters

Jazz-rock -- États-Unis

Collection : Jazz perspectives / Lewis Porter / Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press , 200X

Résumé / Abstract : Steven Pond's Head Hunters captures a transitional moment in modern music history, a time when jazz and rock intermingled to create a new, often controversial, genre. At the forefront of that style was Head Hunters, Herbie Hancock's foray into the fusion jazz market. The album became a turning point for a radical shift in both the production and reception of jazz. It was the best-selling jazz record of all time to that point, and the music industry quickly responded to the expanded market, with production and promotion budgets rising tenfold. Such a shift helped musicians pry open the control-booth door, permanently enlarging their role in production. But critics, believing that rock and funk might be appropriating jazz to new musical ends---or more ominously, for commercial reasons---grew increasingly alarmed at what they saw as the beginning of the end of jazz.