Man-Child
Occupation
- Herbie Hancock - synthesizer, piano, electric piano, Clavinet
- Harvey Mason - drums
- Dewayne McKnight - Guitar
- Ernie Watts - flute and saxophone
- Wah Wah Watson - Synthesizer, Guitar
- Stevie Wonder - harmonica
- Dick Hyde - tuba and bass trombone
- Henry Davis - Bass
- Mike Clark - drums
- Bill Summers - percussion
- David T. Walker - Guitar
- Bud Brisbois - trumpet
- Garnett Brown - trombone
- Jay DaVersa - Trumpet
- James Gadson - drums
- Jim Horn - flute and saxophone
- Paul Jackson - Bass
- Louis Johnson - Bass
- Bennie Maupin - bass clarinet, alto recorder, Saxello, bass flute, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone and percussion
- Wayne Shorter - alto and soprano saxophone
Man-Child is a jazz-funk album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, which was released in 1975 on Columbia Records.
Background
The album is a radio -influenced album of Hancock and represents a further departure from the " spacey higher atmospheric jazz ," as he called it, his earlier career dar. same time, it was the last album the group The Headhunters, the core of Paul Jackson, Bill Summers, Harvey Mason, Bennie Maupin and Mike Clark were and with whom Hancock had previously gone over the years on various tours and made recordings.
The pieces are characterized by short, repetitive riffs in the rhythm section, the brass section and bass lines. Man-Child has less improvisational elements of the band members and focuses on riffs with short solos by the horn section and Hancock himself on the synthesizer and Fender Rhodes piano on the repetitive riffs.
On this album, Hancock is also amplified electric guitars one, in continuation of his work on the album Fat Albert Rotunda, which he had five years previously recorded. The guitarist on this album are Wah Wah Watson, DeWayne " Blackbyrd " McKnight and David T. Walker.
An extensive use of the wah -wah pedal and the accentuation of the chords on the upbeat instead of the downbeat gives the album a much funkier rhythm is broken by stops. The riffs are fast and with repeating patterns that combine multiple voices ( ie, horns, piano, bass, synthesizer, guitar, short vocal performances by Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock, drums and percussion ). The horn section in Hang Up Your Hang- Ups play the riffs in unison that will be answered in turn by electric piano, synthesizers and electric guitar in short periods of call and response.
Reception
Alex Henderson wrote in AllAboutJazz about the album: "Those who like their jazz with a lot of radio, this album should not be missed. "
According to Richard Cook and Brian Morton, the only distinguished the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz with three stars, is Man-Child something like a color chart for his band mid -1970s have been strong in texture and impulsive full of new ideas.
Album pieces
( All compositions by Herbie Hancock, unless indicated otherwise)
Cover versions
Janet Jackson coverte Hang Up Your Hang Ups for their song All Nite ( Do not Stop ). The Fantastic Four who covered Hang Up Your Hang Ups for her song nominal him President on her album 4 in a Row.