In 1974, Billboard published a Jazz Album list sporadically with forty albums ranked. Here’s a chart of the #1 jazz albums of 1974:
| Week Ending | Album | Artist(s) |
|---|---|---|
| January 12 | Spectrum | Billy Cobham |
| February 9 | Head Hunters | Herbie Hancock |
| March 9 | ||
| April 13 | ||
| May 11 | ||
| June 8 | ||
| June 29 | ||
| July 13 | ||
| July 17 | ||
| August 10 | Body Heat | Quincy Jones |
| August 24 | ||
| September 14 | ||
| September 28 | ||
| October 12 | ||
| October 26 | ||
| November 9 | ||
| November 23 | Thrust | Herbie Hancock |
| December 14 | ||
| December 28 | Pieces of Dreams | Stanley Turrentine |
#1 Jazz Albums:
1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986
1974 is the beginning of My Favorite Decade in music and believe it or not, Hancock’s Head Hunters was one of the first jazz albums I ever owned. It was by accident though. I was buying a few used albums at either Al Bum’s or PDQ and when I got home, a copy of Head Hunters had been a stowaway in another album’s jacket. It got a few plays and I ended up picking it up on CD clearance priced from Columbia House just a few years later. The album or rather samples of songs from the album are myriad in hip hop. It was a happy accident that it came into my life.
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