{"id":3989,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/headhunters-evolution-revolution\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"headhunters-evolution-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"Headhunters &#8211; Evolution Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/evolutionrevolution.jpg\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Headhunters\" align=\"right\"\/><b><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Headhunters<br \/><\/font><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Evolution Revolution<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(Basin Street &#8211; 2003)<br \/> by Ray Redmond<\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:13px\">  From the very beginning it fits like an old glove. The CD opens with a 19 sec. interlude that&#8217;s straight out of the 70&#8217;s, then comes right back at you with <strong>Slick It<\/strong>, a fusion-esque jam featuring guests <strong>Victor Atkins<\/strong> on keyboards and <strong>Nicholas Payton<\/strong> contributing some nice trumpet work. The remake of their own <strong>God Made Me Funky<\/strong> is still funky, but I like the original better. <strong>Headhunting<\/strong> is a successful stab at smooth jazz and features guests <strong>Bennie Maupin<\/strong> (another original Headhunter) on sax, <strong>Wah Wah Watson<\/strong> on guitar and drummer <strong>Harvey Mason<\/strong>, who also wrote the track.<\/p>\n<p>  Percussionist <strong>Bill Summers<\/strong>, drummer <strong>Mike Clark<\/strong>, and bassist <strong>Paul Jackson<\/strong> are the three original members of the group that reunited to put out this <em>sizzler<\/em>. <strong>Everything<\/strong> has a gospel-influenced feel and features  vocalist <strong>Juanita Brooks<\/strong>. <strong>Donald Harrison<\/strong> contributes a strong performance on the scattered <strong>Loft Funk<\/strong> and the be-bop tracks <strong>Take No Prizzonerz<\/strong> and <strong>Woody Shaw<\/strong>. Harrison also adds a coating of <em>smoove<\/em> to the smooth jazz oriented <strong>Martell on the Rocks<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Fonkyfried<\/strong> strays into the <em>blues<\/em> arena a bit with some gutsy vocals by <strong>George Porter Jr.<\/strong>. <strong>Nutcracker<\/strong> is more straight ahead, riding on Adkins piano and Paytons smooth horns. he last two tracks, <strong>Yekola<\/strong> and <strong>Evolution Revolution<\/strong> are primarily african music driven by their funky style. This CD is a welcome return for some old friends. Even without their creator, mentor and associate <strong>Herbie Hancock<\/strong>, <strong>Headhunters<\/strong> attains the same musical heights now as they did 30 years ago.                  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HeadhuntersEvolution Revolution(Basin Street &#8211; 2003) by Ray Redmond From the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}