2023 will mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Herbie Hancock’s HeadHunters album which remains a landmark best selling Jazz album.

Let's hear those songs again in their best form!

The live repertoire of 50 Years of HeadHunting brings out the best of Herbies Jazzfunk from the classic period 1973-1979, incl vocal track I Thought It Was You.

The dedicated UK cast of cats is a musician line up of heavy sideman power gathering around singer, keyboardist, and initiator of this project, Xantone Blacq (best known from touring with Amy Winehouse and appearing in her videos).

SET LIST
Sly (Headhunters 1973)
Come Running To Me (Sunlight 1978)
Spank-A-Lee (THRUST 1974)
Watermelon Man (HEADHUNTERS 1973)
(Used To Be) A Cha Cha (JACO PASTORIUS 1976)
Butterfly  (THRUST 1974)  
Actual Proof  (THRUST 1974)
Hang Up Your Hang Ups (MANCHILD 1975)
Chameleon (HEADHUNTERS 1973)
I Thought It Was You (SUNLIGHT 1978) 
Gentle Thoughts (SECRETS 1976)
Trust Me (FEETS DON’T FAIL ME NOW 1979)

LINE UP
Xantoné Blacq (Jessi J, Mark Ronson, Nigel Kennedy) - Keys, Vocal, Talkbox
Soweto Kinch - Saxophone
Ed Riches (Bilal, Suite For Ma Dukes) - Guitar
Moyses Dos Santos (Nile Rogers, Gregory Porter) - Bass, Vocal
Nathan Allen (Amy Winehouse, Eric Clapton) - Drums
Tello Morgado (Jocelyn Brown, Imagination) - Percussion 

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