True, I will try find it cheap somewhere.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 19:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Another predictable vote for <i>Sextant</i>
me too
And again. Is Sextant the new Head Hunters?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
If it wins, it deserves it. Sextant is among my top 5 records ever, it's just amazing.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
It's kinda sad that it was practically the last Mwandishi recording (if you don't count those Eddie Henderson LPs which, like I mentioned upthread, are good but not quite as good as Sextant). Who knows what might've happened if that band would've sticked together?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Btw, Mwandishi fans might want to check the duo record Patrick Gleeson and Bennie Maupin released some years back, Driving While Black. It's quite different from the seventies stuff (there's no other players on it, so everything besides Maupin's reeds is electronic), but interesting nevetheless.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Sextant is a wonderful album and if it or Head Hunters wins it , it will deserve it.
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:55 (sixteen years ago) link
90 mins left to vote
― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
So Head Hunters won the last one and only got 3 votes this time. Typical ILM lol. Glad other albums got so many votes though. Over 50 votes in total isn't bad either.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder how a Miles Davis vs Herbie Hancock 1970-1975 poll would do.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, I'm ashamed I had never checked out Sextant until now. This shit is sick.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
It's awesome stuff.
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 09:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Shall I do that?
― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:28 (sixteen years ago) link
I like picturing Herbie messing around in a huge room full of synthesizers and making his amused Herbie faces.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Have you seen the back cover of Sunlight?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Btw, is it true that Miles was angry for Herbie for him managing to do the fusion thing Miles had already started, only with more commercial success than Miles ever had?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 13:54 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sure miles was slightly annoyed about that. what's really interesting is that Miles actually *opened* for Herbie on several occasions in the mid 70s (post Head Hunters I presume) -- an arrangement that must've been awkward for all parties involved.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Wayne Shorter probably had equal if not bigger commercial success with Weather Report, I'd imagine.
― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 12 December 2007 17:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a new (old) turntable and was able to listen to Thrust last night, it is awesome. The Palm Grease break must have been sampled in a ton of rap tunes, right?
― Jordan, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:49 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought, this being ILM, "Mwandishi" might have won this
― Tom D., Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Actual Proof. Mike Clark is tops on that one.
― Hurting 2, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought that The Blood Donor might have won.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Thursday, 13 December 2007 15:59 (sixteen years ago) link
So Marcello is back,eh?
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 14 December 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
John Coltrane (as Leader) Albums Poll
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 14 December 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Sextant has always been the ILM pick though I think.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 14 December 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Weather Report never had anything close to the commercial success of "Rockit", or even "You Bet Your Love".
As far as album sales went, both were surpassed by Mezzoforte and Spyro Gyra. For a short while at least.
― Geir Hongro, Friday, 14 December 2007 09:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Head Hunters was the best selling jazz album ever for quite some while, until Kind of Blue finally passed it. I'm not sure if this happened during Miles's lifetime though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 14 December 2007 09:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I never get fed up with either of those albums actually. Listened to head Hunters and the Mwandishi era cds last night.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 14 December 2007 16:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Now it's time for Man-Child.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 14 December 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Tuomas , I'm sure I read somewhere that Head Hunters was still the biggest seller.
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 15 December 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
According to the RIAA site, nowadays Kind of Blue is triple platinum, whereas Head Hunters is only single platinum. That's only US sales tough, I'm not sure if the rest of the world would compensate. I think I read somewhere that Kind of Blue passed Head Hunters in sales as late as 1994 though. Maybe it was around that time that it had become cemented as the jazz album everyone should own? Or was it so in the eighties already?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 15 December 2007 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
About the Herbie/Miles competition in the seventies: to me at least it seems obvious that, after the Mwandishi era, Herbie's approach to fusion was notably more populist (which doesn't necessarily mean worse) than Miles's, so could his bigger success really have been that big a surprise to Miles? Or maybe that was the exact reason Miles was angry to Herbie, that he had sold out? On the other hand, I remember reading in some Miles biography (maybe his autobiography?) that he really expected On the Corner to be hip and popular, which, in light of the actual music, seems way too optimistic.
― Tuomas, Saturday, 15 December 2007 11:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder if Head Hunters sells nowadays. It's never the token jazz album in the best album ever lists in magazines like A Kind Of Blue Is
― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 15 December 2007 13:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" was the bestselling jazz album ever.
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 15 December 2007 23:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm fairly sure Headhunters was a much bigger seller than Time Out, but the issue is whether it gets defined as jazz or not. Among the "traditional jazz" albums I think it's either KOB or Time Out.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:51 (sixteen years ago) link
although I didn't see the tuomas post saying that KOB was bigger than Headhunters. But I wouldn't be surprised if KOB has surpassed Time Out by now with all the attention it gets as "greatest jazz album of all time," etc.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:54 (sixteen years ago) link
It is the token jazz album for many.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 16 December 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Time Out was the best selling jazz album for quite a while, but I think Head Hunters passed it at some point, and now KoB has passed them both. At least in the US Time Out and HH are both only single platinum, whereas KoB is triple platinum. Does anyone if there's any site which would show worldwide sales of albums?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 16 December 2007 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
None that I know of. Maybe DJ Martian will know.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 16 December 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd be disappointed if he didn't. Are there any good Herbie Hancock books about?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 17 December 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Only one , and on Head Hunters it seems http://www.amazon.co.uk/Head-Hunters-Making-Platinum-Perspectives/dp/0472114174/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1197853403&sr=1-4 Bit expensive as well.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 17 December 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
How much did "Future Shock" sell, and does it count as a jazz album?
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 17 December 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
oh i love 'maiden voyage.' and 'headhunters.' 'headhunters' was the first herbie hancock set i heard. we were on the salt flats. and a track from 'future shock' is so good, robotsinheat.com (no that's not me but the track's there).
― strgn, Monday, 17 December 2007 07:00 (sixteen years ago) link
why wouldn't future shock count?
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Because it's not jazz really. Not that this makes it any better or worse, but I think calling Future Shock or Perfect Machine jazz would stretch the definition of jazz meaningless. Out of three Laswell-produced albums I think only Sound-System might have enough jazz elements to fit into some wide definition of the word.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Similarly, I'd call Lite Me Up R&B, not jazz.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Jazz is about pushing the boundaries though.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, but do you think any album someone known primarily as a jazz musician releases is automatically jazz? Perfect Machine and Lite Me Up have hardly any improvised parts, I'd say that is the minimum requirement to call something jazz.
― Tuomas, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
"Tutu" is often counted as not jazz, isn't it?
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 17 December 2007 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Tuomas is correct I guess.
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 17 December 2007 15:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Those Eddie Henderson records are dope. I'll stan for *Realization* all day long. More Dr Patrick all the time.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 26 January 2023 17:11 (one year ago) link
“mr. hands” is cool. aside from the amazing cover art works well with london-style “jazz dance” records (ie the uptempo latin inflected stuff with trad instruments)
i lean heavily on “spiraling prism” and “calypso” when i play it out
― the late great, Thursday, 26 January 2023 17:44 (one year ago) link
sorry to jump around here+i'm positive someone has brought it up before now BUT-
if you want even more super hot 70s headhunters/hancock/miles adjacent action, bennie maupin's slow traffic to the right from 1977 is about as good as they get. funky, spacey, mellow, but mad.
probably old news, putting here for posterity mostly. highly recommended either way.
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Friday, 27 January 2023 18:05 (one year ago) link
I've been listening to that Maupin record recently, since his debut is maybe my favourite ECM record. I like it better than the funk-era Hancock I've heard, and it walks an interesting line between being tasteful and gently exploratory, and also trying to sell some records in the context of late 70s fusion.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 28 January 2023 15:22 (one year ago) link