Herbie Handcock’s Head Hunters (1973): Funk Meets Jazz-Fusion
Introducing funk to jazz-fusion (much like Mahavishnu Orchestra did with rock), Herbie Hancock wet our palate with the 15:44-minute track “Chameleon,” tricking us into believing this is an esoteric funk album . . . but it’s not. The composition “Chameleon” became (with 9 minutes shaved off of the…
In A Silent Way (1969) – Pure Genius With a Collaborative Musical Brilliance
Largely improvisational with strokes of a brush painting a musical picture is how one could describe Miles Davis In a Silent Way. Known for his more structured compositions, Davis’s methodology is incorporated in this pioneering fusion album. Side one of the LP gives us electric instruments (except for…