Herbie Hancock

The Prisoner, one of Hancock's last Blue Note LPs, had a cover that showed the
pianist/composer disconsolate behind bars. The image is beginning to seem more and more
apt as Hancock, whose Head Hunters was the first album of progressive, jazz-rooted
improvisational music to make it into the Top Ten, tries harder to overcome the success of
his own influential formulas. Head Hunters was a perfect commercial vehicle for... More >