Herbie Hancock Secrets

"Secrets" from 1976 is a jazz-funk-fusion album by the Keyboardists Herbie Hancock. The successor to his from the previous album "Man-Child" once again picks up on Paul Jackson on bass and brass player Bennie Maupin, who in addition to the master himself, deliver the most solos.
On "Man-Child" the electric guitar joined the sound of Hancock; on "Secrets" she almost became the center of attention put. The dazzling rhythm guitar of the Motown Session Musician Wah Wah Watson stands out here. Where "Man-Child" still has the balance between fast and slow tracks, "Secret" retains the more relaxed, blurred atmosphere. Even the slightly faster tracks like "Doin'It" and "Cantaloupe Iceland" are permeated by a relaxed Caribbean influence.
Broadly speaking, the Album more on rolling grooves than on high-energy radio. Fittingly, Hancock spends a lot of time with the Rhodes piano and uses already the new polyphonic synthesizers – a first Step for ambient music.

Selections:

Side A
1. Doin' It
2. People Music
3. Cantaloupe Island
Side B
1. Spider
2. Gentle Thoughts
3. Swamp Rat
4. Sansho Shima