Herbie Hancock - Headhunters - Chameleon (1998)

[MyBassCover]

Jazz Players are The Best ! Jazz For Ever !

[constipatedlecher]

what the fuck? they skipped to the end of bennie maupin's solo, what bullshit

[GregZO6]

Thanks for sharing!

BTW, it is Mike Clark on drums, not "Mick".

[hoffus]

Maupin is bringin' it. Awesome that Herbie got to original reed man back for this show!

[DanPlaysGuitar14]

and cee lo green on the bass, ladies and gents.

[wowserstar]

I'm talking about talent. No comparison. One's a craftsman. The other is genius. Ever hear Thrust? Actual Proof?

[wowserstar]

I clicked on a link for Mike Clark's JAZZ band Indigo Blue and this came up? WTF

[LardmyButt]

@wowserstar are you impying this isnt jazz? cuz ur wrong.

[leokasper7107]

what's up with the bassist?? ehh....

[LardmyButt]

@leokasper7107 paul jackson is a genius. dont be hatin

[topgrain]

Sorry, but, no Harvey Mason on drums takes the air out of this whole performance. It's flat and weak. 

[wowserstar]

@topgrain sorry harvey mason, while a nice enough guy can't touch Mike Clark's genius.

[topgrain]

@wowserstar I'm not talking about career achievement, although Mason holds his own there, too; I'm talking about Headhunters, that original LP that burned itself into my consciousness immediately after I peeled the cellophane off of it and played it back in the early 1970's. That was Harvey Mason banging out that beat that made me grin ear to ear all of the 10,000 times I have played that album.

[wowserstar]

@topgrain sorry harvey mason, while a nice enough guy can't touch Mike Clark's genius.

[henniebogan1]

ahhaah at 3:54 herbie is like WTF are u doing

[aabed31]

The sax dood wasnt too great,

[Z3r0mt]

I seriously doubt that Herbie, Mick and Bill would have just let Paul speed up. If they had wanted to they could have locked down on the feel and kept the tempo but they chose to go with it.

[bobfunk11]

@Z3r0mt

..Sensible comment!



[LardmyButt]

@Z3r0mt then why didnt they stop him. its part of the hancock's original arrangement bro

[Z3r0mt]

@LardmyButt What are you talking about? The bass player just played the song with is own interpretation. Yes its different, but i don't see why they would 'stop' him.

[ALIBABASNYAHATT2]

Slicklick 2:44

[tiredrummertube]

Sorry ; Pauls drifting on his own without the rest of the band; he also played off key a few times; that aint the way its done son.

[LardmyButt]

@tiredrummertube woah. he made a mistake. fire him. Dude. lighten up. A lot of people like this rendititon of chameleon. my band plays it like this and sounds pretty damn awesome if i do say so.

[Xolin11]

Paul looks like Cee Lo.

[novaflo339]

sweet like candy

[bretzelesser]

Paul Jackson is such a great bass player. My absolute favorite groovewise.

But he ruined this gig (I´ve seen the show in Montreux, it was so disappointing.

The Bass sounds totally detuned nearly all the time, not to mention the tempo issue.

Well, he is still the greatest! Such beautiful NEW styles these musicians invented in the early seventies.

[JetForceF22]

@bretzelesser I don't like Paul's playing on this song at all. He uses absolutely no legato in his playing, and the album we've come to know and love makes a very effective and expressive use of legato, which is not heard at all on this version. Not to mention his sporadic and rather radical noticeable change in tempo, which is kinda one of the most important things for the bass player to keep solid, specially during a song like this.

[degijsvisser]

@JetForceF22 If you listen this song at the album, you'll hear a tempo change also, so it belongs to the song.

[JetForceF22]

@degijsvisser Yes we all know the tempo change in the studio version of Chameleon, but it didn't happen rapidly nor did it consistently slow down and speed up. The tempo speed up just a little, giving the song some forward motion but the tempo change isn't so extreme you go "Wow what are they doing?" but not to the extreme we see here. A good performance isn't going to have all these notable tempo changes that this bass player induced on this song.

[imfly63]

this was a sng we played in the stands at football games (shorter version) and we played it well. had peple dancing lookin at us not th football team. man how i love this kind of music

[pharyngealized]

I don't know. It does not feel in "the pocket". Somehow restless and rushed.

Maybe they do not smoke grass anymore?....

[henniebogan1]

@pharyngealized the rushed part was on purpose... playin ahead...

these guys are good they dont mess this up they are groovin tight

[pharyngealized]

@henniebogan1

yeah I know about "playing ahead" but this one does not feel good compared to older shows.

[KwameNewton]

@pharyngealized They've probably been asked to play this at every single gig they've ever done, so it must get boring sometimes.

[EricYukari2005]

Paul Jackson is killin it on this!!!!!

[chelosegui]

History on the making even if they played this stuff way before this is better cause they are over it. Love them all.

[actionvid1]

Nice video, but will someone re-upload this video so we can actually hear it?!

[JokingCarl]

I love Paul Jackson's face whenever he gets a solo. Totally priceless.

[ThemJazzyBeats]

I hope his band will play this song at the montreal jazz fest. Cant wait to see him !

[Zac44]

they use effects pedals...

[CookysGirl96]

My school jazz abnd is playing this song and its AMAZING. Trombones get the best part. which i play...tehe

[Qhuit8]

Well, maybe the best live of this song. I really don't like it when herbie replaces the sax with a keytar.

[jazzmelodicminor77]

3:54 did everyone saw the face of herbie becouse the tempo its fluctuating in the bass hahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!! funny as fuck!

[SASHATG]

@jazzmelodicminor77 hahaha!!!!! he was like "wtf is goin on?!"

[corrda1993]

I like da bass solo.

[nebaioth]

what's up with the volume son?

[r0dster01]

holygroove2, I get what you're saying.I think some people may think you're cracking on Mike but Harvey was doing some really new things funk wise on the first Headhunters album and his phrasing with Paul J on Herbie's solo was sweet. However, the next album, Thrust, came out when I was in 10th grade (yipe!) and when I heard the "new guy" Mike Clark play on Actual Proof I nearly quit :-) He and Paul were just sick and years later I marvel at it. So, I'm just advocating props to both :-)

[supertech20002]

was saxophones; Bill Summers - percussion the original sax on the original cut

[joeisdrumming92]

my jazz band played it at my school. they messed it up in every way possible. theyre all white. haha

[rustyspo0ns]

@joeisdrumming92 This is such a cliché...

[joeisdrumming92]

@rustyspo0ns what is?

[rustyspo0ns]

@joeisdrumming92 Bein white explains it all. Just the same old speach that made Bill Evans leave Miles' band...

I know you're probably joking but i'm kinda getting tired with it at the moment as it seems to be widely accepted in jazz that white can do shit with rythm which is untrue. =p

[Filipe191]

@rustyspo0ns

everyone knows Chick Corea and Al Demeola were black

[earthga]

@joeisdrumming92 hahaha thats funny

[Briceno009]

were playing this song for are jazz band at skool

[Ramshackled17]

The drummer on this is the great Mike Clark.

[speedingforfun]

its kinda cool how they slow down for the piano solo, but i miss the tight bass groove from the track on "head hunters"

[holygroove2]

Not into the drummer on this one, but they play the second part of the song which is my favorite. I notice that drummer lays out for most of that. Harvey Mason KILLED it on the album on that part. Don't know 2 many drummers that can copy what Mason did on the actual album - It has a crazy lock with the bass line that Summers plays here - Summers is holding the whole thing down man. Craaaazy.

[vorrifmn]

so quiet

[maidoodesu]

Benny Maupin is here !

[pamelatemplin1]

I love your music.

I think your music is very inspirational to me.

Thank you.

Shilo

[tenellifranco]

great video, pity the sound level is law:(

thanks for posting

[lf4317]

Sound level/volume is OK

[BongoandReikiT]

Too quiet.

[bobfunk11]

Don't know what's happened - I'll re-upload later.

You can still here it ok on external system

bob

[earthga]

@bobfunk11 yeah like me, I fall down the chair becouse messenger msg! felt great though

[pookierulz]

@BongoandReikiT turn up your sound then foool

[Rattenhoofd]

The volume is so low I can hardly hear anything. Great song though.

[tarekabdelosamabinfa]

cool bassplayer who is this ?

[bemolable]

Can sonmeone tell me what key that song is ?

[wesleyroyer]

B flat minor-ish.

[gerardpc]

B b -

[Spimp2]

It's Bb dorian which means the key signature would be Ab major. that's what it would be in concert pitch.

if you play tenor it's in Bb major

if you play alto it's in F

[DaParch37]

you could also play the concert Bb blues scale on it.

[KanuZankoro]

what kind of bass is that?

[devinESKIMO]

what kind of mouthpiece is the sax player using?

[dogshit71]

Not as funky as the 75' version but STILL ROCKS!!!

[MrMaestro777]

Just wondering? How come Hancock looked abit weirded out and scratched as if saying..."what was that?" 2:03. I like this song though, nice groove.

[Profetic]

he was in his grooove

totally in it maybe we cant see whats in this genius his mind.

[nadirsharav]

Benny just did a weird chord or something... listen to the sax at 2:00 ~

[TheMusikI]

That wasn't B. Maupin who played a chord. He's playing a relatively effectless sound. My particular favorite. The one who hit the weirdness was Hancock. Or whomever else is playing synth.

[alexwonton]

how did he do that??

[taconumber5]

I think he's fixing his earpiece

[tzeqin]

hmm

[giggitygoo619]

real nice to smoke to

[cky12qxz]

1:58 chords?!!! :D

[boomtao]

It must be some kind of sax-synth and I am pretty sure he hit the button with his foot quite by mistake. It is ugly as hell! So is the accompaniment that Herbie starts playing at 3:49. Don't you think?

[cky12qxz]

No, it's part of the song. I think the chords are sexy. :D

[yo12332155]

uhm. no. that was completely on purpose. it was supposed to make it sound horrible.

[yungatown]

does any body know how dude just played chords on the sax!!!????

[Mattytheman91]

yeah practise!!!!!!! lol

[yungatown]

lol really!!! I actually asked another sax player friend of mine about that and he showed me how! its called polytones on the sax! Its not as easy as this guy makes it look tho!

[Mattytheman91]

yeah its really advanced, I can nearly play multiphonics but it kinda happens by mistake sometimes. I's a thing that you develop after years of playing :P

[yungatown]

wow

[AplleManche]

heh. No, polytones sound much different. He was using an octave pedal.

[me007963]

yep he was using a pedal, wasnt octaves though i dont think? but certainly NOT an acoustic effect, some people use split tones / multiphonics but thats a totally different sound.

[ReconSphinx]

Man why did Herbie stop playing real Clavinet? That Yamaha(?) just dosen´t sound very good compared to the real deal.

[theGrapefruit]

I guess for the same reason as why he doesn't carry a Steinway around :) It is way too heavy (so is the Rhodes, at least the Mk II I have).

And for the record: the person who cut Herbie's piano solo out should be hanged.

[ReconSphinx]

I saw him last fall and they brought a grand piano on the whole tour so i dont think the weight is the problem :). Now he plays the Korg Oasys wich in my opinion dosent come near the "real deal" concerning rhodes and clavinett. He should alteast get a nord :).

[VeroniqueAccount]

Such a groove! Such a groove !!!!

[geefron]

such a groooooooooooooove!!:)!

[grrrfield]

incredible !!!!!!

[navdrum001]

man...there is a video of here of herbie and his crew from 1975 and i think the drummer and sax atleast are the same dudes...nice to know...

[kentyah]

Yah, same band:

Bill Summers-percussion

Mike Clark-drums

Paul Jackson-bass

Bennie Maupin-sax

Herbie Hancock-keys

and in 75 Blackbyrd McKnight on guitar

[navdrum001]

awesome! thanks for that!!

[TonyBono]

Harvey Mason was actually the drummer for the "Headhunters" album. Clark took over on the next album and is more or less regarded as "the" headhunters drummer, though Mason recorded this song....

[kentyah]

Yah but Harvey never played a show with the Headhunters. Mike stepped in after the recording dates and was the live drummer from jump...

[giamadrama]

respect

[jabf123]

so nice

[funkaduc]

Paul Jackson is my favourite bass player. He plays like a drumer!

[monkeypenios]

drummer not drumer

[funkaduc]

sorry. I am Frensh.

[intermittent92]

it's the real headhunter with mike clark paul jackson etc, so good

[pfunkky]

Bout time some one knows what their talking about! The tempo does speed up in the original recording, there's all kinds of ways this song is played by Herbie. Paul Jackson is one bad ass bass player, check Paul out on bass on The Head Hunters "If You Got It You'll Get It". G-MAG

[bobfunk11]

Amen

Bob

[FunkieGrooves]

Wow, what happened with paul jackson. He became 10 times bigger then he used to be in the old times

[gamwizrd1]

yea lol i was totally agreeing with you too :)

[joeyyodarr]

Dude I don't know how you guys took my comment but i dig this stuff man. I think is was a little drunk when i wrote it cause i misspelled a couple of words. I think they sounded fine.

[bobfunk11]

We were agreeing with you ... at least I was

Peace

Bob

[bobfunk11]

Exactly!

[prsguitarsr4me]

damn that bass playing sounds like shit. and its out of tune

[Mapex101]

Shit, the full line-up. That's amazing.

[marti1978]

woooo!

[brucebud]

What an awesome ensemble. Now THIS is jazz funk.