Editing Head Hunters (section)

{{about|the 1973 album by Herbie Hancock|other uses|Headhunter (disambiguation)}}
{{more citations|date=August 2023}}
{{Infobox album
| name         = Head Hunters
| type         = studio
| artist       = [[Herbie Hancock]]
| cover        = Herbie-Hancock-Head-Hunters.png
| alt          = A human figure wearing a horned mask with its face resembling a reel-to-reel tape recorder playing keyboards in the foreground, while four unmasked men in the background hold instruments. The keyboardist has shades of yellow and red, while the musicians in the back blend with the blue background
| released     = {{start date|1973|10|26}}
| recorded     = September 1973
| studio       = [[Wally Heider Studios|Wally Heider]] and [[Different Fur]] (San Francisco)
| genre        = * [[Jazz-funk]]<ref name="pitchfork" />
* [[jazz fusion]]<ref name="Erlewine" />
| length       = 41:52
| label        = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| producer     = * Herbie Hancock
* [[David Rubinson]]
| prev_title   = [[Sextant (album)|Sextant]]
| prev_year    = 1973
| next_title   = [[Dedication (Herbie Hancock album)|Dedication]]
| next_year    = 1974
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Erlewine">Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/head-hunters-r140166/review Review: ''Head Hunters'']. [[AllMusic]]. Retrieved on January 7, 2010.</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[DownBeat]]''
| rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Down">Columnist. "[http://www.tower.com/head-hunters-herbie-hancock-cd/wapi/106693029 Review: ''Head Hunters''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090604153454/http://www.tower.com/head-hunters-herbie-hancock-cd/wapi/106693029 |date=June 4, 2009 }}". ''[[DownBeat]]'': January 17, 1974.</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[Jazzwise]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="JW">{{cite web |title=Herbie Hancock – Headhunters ★★★★★ |url=https://www.jazzwise.com/review/article/herbie-hancock-headhunters |website=[[Jazzwise]] |language=en |date=July 22, 2019}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev5score = {{Rating|4|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=642}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev6score = 10/10<ref name="pitchfork">{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/herbie-hancock-head-hunters/|title=Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters Album Review|website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]|last=Larson|first=Jeremy D.|date=April 5, 2020|access-date=April 5, 2020}}</ref>
| rev7 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite journal|title=none|journal=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London|page=100|date=February 2000}}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Hoard">Hoard, Christian (ed.) "[https://books.google.com/books?id=lRgtYCC6OUwC&pg=PA361 Review: ''Head Hunters'']". ''Rolling Stone''. 361. November 2, 2004.</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev9score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book|editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | page = 94}}</ref>
| rev10 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev10Score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Carr |first=Roy |author-link=Roy Carr |date=July 1997 |title=Miles Davis: ''Kind of Blue'' / The Dave Brubeck Quartet: ''Time Out'' / Herbie Hancock: ''Headhunters'' |magazine=[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]] |page=107 |issue=2}}</ref>
}}

'''''Head Hunters''''' is the twelfth [[studio album]] by American pianist, keyboardist and composer [[Herbie Hancock]], released October 26, 1973, on [[Columbia Records]]. Recording sessions for the album took place in the evening at [[Wally Heider Studios]] and [[Different Fur|Different Fur Trading Co.]] in [[San Francisco]], [[California]].

The album was a commercial and artistic breakthrough for Hancock, crossing over to [[funk]] and [[rock music|rock]] audiences and bringing [[jazz-funk]] [[jazz fusion|fusion]] to mainstream attention, peaking at number 13 on the [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]. Hancock is featured with woodwind player [[Bennie Maupin]] from his previous sextet and new collaborators – bassist [[Paul Jackson (bassist)|Paul Jackson]], percussionist [[Bill Summers (musician)|Bill Summers]] and drummer [[Harvey Mason]]. The latter group of collaborators, which would go on to be known as [[the Headhunters]], also played on Hancock's subsequent studio album ''[[Thrust (album)|Thrust]]'' (1974). All of the musicians (with the exception of Mason) play multiple instruments on the album.