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Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz´s First Platinum Album
Steven F. Pond
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Description for Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz´s First Platinum Album
Paperback. The story of one of the most influential and controversial jazz recordings of the twentieth century Series: Jazz Perspectives. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, figures, printed music items. BIC Classification: AVGJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
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. It was also the first jazz album to go platinum, and the best-selling jazz record of all time to that point.
The album became a turning point for a radical shift in both the production and reception of jazz. The sales numbers were unprecedented, and the music industry quickly responded to the expanded market, with production ... Read more
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. It was also the first jazz album to go platinum, and the best-selling jazz record of all time to that point.
The album became a turning point for a radical shift in both the production and reception of jazz. The sales numbers were unprecedented, and the music industry quickly responded to the expanded market, with production ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of Michigan Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Jazz Perspectives
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472034482
SKU
V9780472034482
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About Steven F. Pond
Steven F. Pond is Associate Professor of music at Cornell University. He will become Editor in Chief for the journal Jazz Perspectives in 2011.
Reviews for Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz´s First Platinum Album
... [a] very readable dissection of all the different ways in which Herbie Hancock's 1973 album Head Hunters broke the mould. . . .An entertaining and thought-provoking read.- Jazzwise Magazine; ""... as gripping and readable as the album is unapologetically popular and danceable, this book will be gobbled up like a musicological mystery novel that incites and invites readers ... Read more