Man-Child

Performer: Herbie Hancock
Artist: Bennie Maupin; Wayne Shorter; Jim Horn; Ernie Watts; Stevie Wonder; Mike Clark; Harvey Mason; Wah Wah Watson; David T. Walker; Bill Summers
Distributor: MSI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Herbie Hancock (acoustic & Fender Rhodes pianos, Clavinet, synthesizer); Bennie Maupin (soprano & tenor saxophone, saxello, alto & bass flutes, bass clarinet); Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone); Jim Horn, Ernie Watts (saxophone, flute); Bud Brisbois, Jay DaVersa (trumpet); Garnett Brown (trombone); Dick Hyde (bass trombone, tuba); Stevie Wonder (harmonca); Wah Wah Watson (synthesizer, guitar); Blackbird McKnight, David T. Walker (guitar); Paul Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry Davis (bass); Mike Clark, Harvey Mason, James Gadson (drums); Bill Summers (percussion). Recorded at Wally Heider Studios and Funky Features, San Francisco, California; Village Recorders and Crystal Studios, Los Angeles, California. Personnel: Herbie Hancock (piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, ARP Odyssey, Oberheim synthesizer, Clavinet, synthesizer); Bennie Maupin (tenor & soprano saxophones, saxello, bass clarinet, bass, alto flute); Ernie Watts, Jim Horn (saxophone, flute); Wayne Shorter (soprano saxophone); Bud Brisbois, Jay DaVersa (trumpet); Garnett Brown (trombone); Dick Hyde (tuba, bass trombone); Stevie Wonder (harmonica); Wah Wah Watson (guitar, synthesizer); Blackbird McKnight, David T. Walker (guitar); Paul Jackson, Louis Johnson, Henry Davis (bass); Mike Clark, Harvey Mason, James Gadson (drums); Bill Summers (percussion). Producers: David Rubinson and Friends, Inc., Herbie Hancock. Engineers: Fred Catero, David Rubinson, Jack Leahy. Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Funky Features, San Francisco, California; Village Recorders, Crystal Studios, Los Angeles, California. 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, Head Hunters 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

One of the most open-eared and forward-thinking jazz musicians of his day, Hancock has, more than just about anyone else, consistently tried to broaden the music's horizons by mixing it with the most interesting elements of contemporary pop. Hancock has consistently pushed the envelope, from his earliest days with Miles Davis to his jazz-rock fusion of the early '70s and his early embrace of synthesizers and electronic instruments, his early-'80s experiments with hip-hop and sampling, or more recently, his acoustic piano reinterpretations of songs--the new standards, in his parlance--by everyone from Don Henley to Nirvana.

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