Jump to content

Sunlight (Herbie Hancock album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Come Running to Me)
Sunlight
Studio album by
Released1978
GenreJazz, funk
Length39:26
LabelColumbia
ProducerHerbie Hancock, David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
VSOP: Tempest in the Colosseum
(1977)
Sunlight
(1978)
An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert
(1978)

Sunlight is an album by keyboardist Herbie Hancock.[1] It features Hancock's vocals through a Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder, as well as performances by drummer Tony Williams and bassist Jaco Pastorius on “Good Question”.[2]

Critical reception

[edit]
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

The Globe and Mail wrote that Hancock "has returned to directionless electronic funk, saved only by a medium-tempo jazz number, 'Come Running to Me'."[3]

Track listing

[edit]

All tracks composed by Herbie Hancock, except where indicated.

Side one

[edit]
  1. "I Thought It Was You" (Hancock, Melvin Ragin, Jeffrey Cohen) – 8:56
  2. "Come Running to Me" (lyrics: Allee Willis) – 8:25

Side two

[edit]
  1. "Sunlight" – 7:12
  2. "No Means Yes" – 6:21
  3. "Good Question" – 8:32

Personnel

[edit]

Musicians

[edit]

Production

[edit]
  • Herbie Hancock and David Rubinson – producers
  • David Rubinson, Fred Catero (with Chris Minto and Cheryl Ward) – engineers at The Automatt
  • Steve Mantoani – engineer at Different Fur Trading Co.
  • Terry Becker – assistant engineer (brass)
  • Phill Brown – mastering

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Tompkins, David (2011). How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop: The Machine Speaks. Melville House. p. 241.
  2. ^ a b Ginell, Richard S. "Herbie Hancock: Sunlight". allmusic.com. Retrieved April 5, 2020.
  3. ^ McGrath, Paul (12 July 1978). "Herbie Hancock". The Globe and Mail. p. F2.
[edit]