Head hunters : the making of jazz's first platinum album - Pond, Steven F., 1951- (Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2005)
Fusion jazz and the Head Hunters project -- "An African thing" : aes thetics and identity in Head Hunters -- At the crossroads of genre : fu nk in action -- The pasts they brought with them -- Hands on the knobs : how production techniques changed the music -- Selling Herbie : marke ting and Head Hunters -- Final reflections : the politics of classifica tion.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-242), discography (p. 24 3), and index.
Keywords: Hancock, Herbie, -- 1940-; Jazz-rock (Music) -- United States -- History and criticism