Thursday Throwback is a weekly colour scheme inspired by an iconic album cover of yesteryear. This week’s throwback is the 1973 album “Head Hunters” by Herbie Hancock. The colours are as follows:
| Colours | HEX | RGB | HSB | CMYK | LAB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colour 1 | #3C2E59 | 60, 46, 89 | 260, 48, 35 | 33, 48, 0, 65 | 22, 17, -24 |
| Colour 2 | #F2CD13 | 242, 205, 19 | 50, 92, 95 | 0, 15, 92, 5 | 83, -2, 82 |
| Colour 3 | #D9A714 | 217, 167, 20 | 45, 91, 85 | 0, 23, 91, 15 | LAB 71, 7, 72 |
| Colour 4 | #BF5A1F | 191, 90, 31 | 22, 84, 75 | 0, 53, 84, 25 | 50, 37, 50 |
| Colour 5 | #A62121 | 166, 33, 33 | 0, 80, 65 | 0, 80, 80, 35 | 37, 53, 35 |
“Head Hunters” is the twelfth studio album by the American jazz musician Herbie Hancock. It was released on October 26, 1973, under Columbia Records. The album was recorded over several evenings at two different studios in San Francisco: Different Fur Trading Co. and Wally Heider Studios. This particular album marked a significant turning point for Hancock, both commercially and artistically. It successfully appealed to funk and rock audiences, helping to bring jazz-funk fusion into the mainstream spotlight. In fact, it reached an impressive position of number 13 on the Billboard 200 chart during its release period. The album featured woodwind player Bennie Maupin from his previous sextet along with collaborators – bassist Paul Jackson, percussionist Bill Summers and drummer Harvey Mason. The four collaborative musicians officially became known as “The Headhunters” and played on Hancock’s subsequent studio album Thrust (1974). All of the musicians (with the exception of Mason) play multiple instruments on the album.
In 2005, the album ranked at number 498 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Although it wasn’t included in the online version of the list published in 2003 or its revised version from 2012, it made a comeback and secured a spot at number 254 in the most recent 2020 revision. Head Hunters was a key release in Hancock’s career and a defining moment in the genre of jazz, and has been an inspiration not only for jazz musicians, but also to funk, soul, and hip hop artists. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry, a collection of “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.”
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