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''Secrets'' is a August 1976 jazz-funk fusion album by keyboard player Herbie Hancock. The album clearly followed from its predecessor ''Man-Child''. As ever, Paul Jackson's basslines were critical, and the other regular member Bennie Maupin continued to provide most of the solos alongside Hancock. ''Man-Child'' had seen the addition of electric guitar to Hancock's sound, and ''Secrets'' saw the guitar's place in the arrangements rise to crucial importance throughout. The flamboyant rhythm guitar contributions of top Motown session musician Wah Wah Watson are a particularly notable feature of the album. Where ''Man-Child'' was evenly divided between up-tempo and laid-back tracks, ''Secrets'' emphasized the more mellow, softly rounded mood. Even the more up-tempo tracks, "Doin' It" and "Cantelope Island", are suffused with a relaxed Caribbean influence, and overall the album tends towards restrained, rolling grooves rather than overtly high-energy funk. Appropriately, Hancock spent much of his time using the mellow tones of the Rhodes piano, and took advantage of the new polyphonic synthesizers to contribute thick pads, foreshadowing ambient music. Although summery and mellow, the album was far from lounge music, with some extremely abstract and intense sections, particular in the latter half; it is also entirely instrumental beside the "Jus' keep on doin' it" chants of the opening track. Subsequent Hancock albums saw the addition of more vocoded lead vocals and disco influences. The ''Secrets'' line-up performed "Spider" (from this LP) and "Hang Up Your Hang-Ups" (from ''Man-Child'') at the V.S.O.P. concert in the summer of 1976. ==Track listing== # "Doin' It" (Melvin Ragin, Ray Parker, Jr.) – 8:03 # "People Music" (Herbie Hancock, Ragin, Paul Jackson) – 7:11 # "Cantelope Island" () (Hancock) – 7:06 # "Spider" (Ragin, Hancock, Jackson) – 7:21 # "Gentle Thoughts" (Hancock, Ragin) – 7:05 # "Swamp Rat" (Jackson, Hancock, Ragin) – 6:26 # "Sansho Shima" (Bennie Maupin) – 4:50 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Secrets (Herbie Hancock album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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