Herbie Hancock - Secrets

Artist:

Hancock, Herbie

UPC:

074643428026

See Also:

Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock - An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert Chick Corea/Herbie Hancock - An Evening with Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea: In Concert

Description:

Personnel: Herbie Hancock (acoustic, Fender Rhodes & Yamaha electric pianos, Clavinet, ARP, Moog & Oberheim synthesizers); Wah Wah Watson (vocals, synthesizer, guitar, bass); Bennie Maupin (soprano & tenor saxophones, saxello, lyricon, bass clarinet); Ray Parker Jr. (guitar, background vocals); Paul Jackson (bass); James Gadson (drums, background vocals); James Levi (drums); Kenneth Nash (percussion); Art Baldacci, Fred Dobbs, Don Kerr, Chris Mancini (background vocals).
Engineers: Fred Catero, David Rubinson, Michael Fusaro.
Recorded at Wally Heider Recording and Columbia Recording Studios, San Francisco, California.
This is a specially imported limited edition 20-bit digital remaster from Japan.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Personnel: Herbie Hancock (vocals, piano, electric piano, Clavinet, keyboards, synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, Moog synthesizer); Art Baldacci, Chris Mancini, Fred Dobbs, Don Kerr (vocals, background vocals); Julia Tillman Waters (vocals); Wah-Wah Watson (guitar, synthesizer, sampler); Ray Parker, Jr. (guitar, background vocals); Bennie Maupin (lyre, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, saxello, tenor saxophone, lyricon); James Gadson (drums, background vocals); James Levi (drums); Kenneth Nash (percussion).
Recording information: 06/1976.
Photographer: Herbert Greene.
Unknown Contributor Roles: Herbie Hancock; Wah-Wah Watson; James Levi.
Having long since established his funk credentials, Herbie Hancock continues the direction of Head Hunters and its U.S. successors here, welding himself to the groove on electric keyboards while Bennie Maupin again shines sardonic beams of light on a variety of reeds. In "Doin` It," the most successful track, Hancock makes a more overt bid for the dancefloor, for the tune is basically one long irresistible groove with a very commercial-sounding bridge. Again Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards; "Cantelope [sic] Island" is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing. A streamlining process has set in -- the drumming has been simplified, some of the old high-voltage drive has been muted -- yet there are still enough enjoyable, intelligently musical things happening here to hold a Hancock admirer`s attention. ~ Richard S. Ginell

Track Listing:

DISC 1

1. Doin` It
2. People Music
3. Cantaloupe Island
4. Spider
5. Gentle Thoughts
6. Swamp Rat
7. Sansho Shima

Album Information

Release Date:

09/27/1988

Type:

Performer

Genre:

R&B

Subgenre:

Funk

Label:

Columbia (USA)

Producer:

David Rubinson; Herbie Hancock

Catalog Number:

CK-34280

Original Release Year:

1976

# of Discs:

1

Studio/Live:

Studio

Mono/Stereo:

Stereo

Runtime:

48 : 0

Guest Artist:

Ray Parker, Jr.; James Gadson; Bennie Maupin; Paul Jackson

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