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Herbie Hanccock: Man-Child

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Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1976
Time:
 46:04
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.herbiehancock.com
Appears with: Chick Corea, Jack de Johnette
Purchase date: 2002.01.22
Price in €: 9,99



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[1] Hang up Your Hang Ups (H.Hancock/M.Ragin/P.Jackson) - 7:26
[2] Sun Touch (H.Hancock) - 5:08
[3] The Traitor (H.Hancock/M.Ragin/L.Johnson/W.Shorter) - 9:35
[4] Bubbles (H.Hancock/M.Ragin) - 8:59
[5] Steppin' in It (H.Hancock) - 8:35
[6] Heartbeat (H.Hancock/M.Ragin/P.Jackson) - 5:16

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HERBIE HANCOCK - Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboards, Electric Piano, Vocals, Clavinet, Arp, Fender Rhodes, Oberheim, Synthesizer Strings, Arp Pro Soloist, Arp Odyssey

BENNIE MAUPIN - Flute, Percussion, Bass Clarinet, Alto & Bass Flute, Soprano & Tenor Saxophone, Wind, Saxello
WAYNE SHORTER - Soprano Saxophone
MIKE CLARK - Drums
BILL SUMMERS - Percussion
DAVID T. WALKER - Guitar
BUD BRISBOIS - Trumpet
GARNETT BROWN - Trombone
MICHAEL CLARKE - Drums
JAY DAVERSA - Trumpet
JAMES GADSON - Drums
JIM HORN - Flute, Saxophone
RICHARD HYDE - Trombone
PAUL JACKSON - Bass
LOUIS JOHNSON - Bass
HARVEY MASON, Sr. - Drums
DEWAYNE "Blackbird" MCKNIGHT - Guitar
ERNIE WATTS - Flute, Saxophone
WAH WAH WATSON - Synthesizer, Guitar, Sampling, Voice Bag
STEVIE WONDER - Harmonica
DICK HYDE - Tuba, Bass Trombone
MIKE CLARK - Drums
HENRY E. DAVIS - Bass

THE HEADHUNTERS - Group

DAVID RUBINSON - Engineer
FRED CATERO - Engineer
JACK LEAHY - Engineer
GEORGE HORN - Mastering
PHIL BROWN - Mastering
DARIO CAMPANILE - Artwork, Art Direction
MARK GILBERT - Liner Notes


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1976 LP CBS 33812
1991 CD Columbia CK-33812
1975 LP Columbia 33812
1997 CD Mobile Fidelity 706
1991 CS Columbia PCT-33812
1999 CD Sony International 9501



Perhaps the funkiest album of Herbie Hancock's early- to mid-'70s jazz/funk/fusion era, Man-Child starts off with the unforgettable "Hang Up Your Hang Ups," and the beat just keeps coming until the album's end. "Sun Touch" and "Bubbles" are slower, but funky nonetheless. Hancock is the star on his arsenal of keyboards, but guitarist Wah Wah Watson's presence is what puts a new sheen on this recording, distinguishing it from its predecessors, Headhunters and Thrust. Others among the all-star cast of soloists and accompanists include Wayne Shorter on soprano sax, Stevie Wonder on chromatic harmonica, and longtime Hancock cohort Bennie Maupin on an arsenal of woodwinds.

Jim Newsom - All-Music Guide
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The Prisoner, one of Hancock's last Blue Note LPs, had a cover that showed the pianist/composer disconsolate behind bars. The image is beginning to seem more and more apt as Hancock, whose Head Hunters was the first album of progressive, jazz-rooted improvisational music to make it into the Top Ten, tries harder to overcome the success of his own influential formulas. Head Hunters was a perfect commercial vehicle for extended improvising, with its cooking, danceable rhythms, its mysterious synthesizer overlays and its African ethnic touches. Thrust provided more dance rhythms and less originality, and didn't sell nearly as well.
What to do? Man-Child hedges its bets by presenting more tracks (six, as opposed to four each on the two previous LPs) and more grooves. "Hang Up Your Hang Ups" and "Steppin' in It" could be outtakes from the earlier works; they bounce and burble along irrepressibly, and the improvising is funky and slight. "Bubbles" features sensitive soprano saxophone by guest Wayne Shorter, is slower and more reflective and develops into the most beautiful piece in the recent Hancock discography. "Sun Touch," thoughtfully constructed around an intermittent vamp figure, is almost as impressive. In trying to please two audiences — fans of jazz improvisation and the get-down crowd — Hancock may find himself imprisoned between two worlds. But Man-Child's structures are more varied and the solos are more involving than anything on Thrust. This is altogether a braver, more substantial LP; hopefully its reception will embolden Hancock to move further beyond formula toward the lasting fusion of improvisational interest and R&B drive he is capable of creating.

ROBERT PALMER - RS 204
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