Head Hunters

For this album Herbie Hancock only kept Bennie Maupin of his more experimental band Sextant and formed a new Band called The Headhunters to be able to change his style of music to a more commercial approach to jazz fusion and even adding some elements of rock to it (even though he decided against the use of guitar completely for this album).
This album became a major success selling over a million copies in the USA alone therefore earning it a Platinum award(RIAA) and even reaching No. 13 on the Billboard 200

Quote from Herbie Hancock on his decision to change his style:

“I began to feel that I had been spending so much time exploring the upper atmosphere of music and the more ethereal kind of far-out spacey stuff. Now there was this need to take some more of the earth and to feel a little more tethered; a connection to the earth….I was beginning to feel that we (the sextet) were playing this heavy kind of music, and I was tired of everything being heavy. I wanted to play something lighter.”