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The album clearly followed from its predecessor Man-Child. As ever, Paul Jackson's basslines were critical, and the other regular memberBennie 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 emphasised the more mellow, softly rounded mood. Even the more up-tempo tracks, "Doin' It" and "Cantaloupe 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 polyphonicsynthesizers to contribute thick pads, foreshadowing ambient music.
 
"Doin' It" (Melvin Ragin, Ray Parker, Jr.) – 8:03 開頭就挖挖了
"People Music" (Herbie Hancock, Ragin, Paul Jackson) – 7:11
"Cantelope Island" [sic] (Hancock) – 7:06 雷鬼式的懶散
"Spider" (Ragin, Hancock, Jackson) – 7:21 0455貓頭鷹叫聲
"Gentle Thoughts" (Hancock, Ragin) – 7:05 節奏強勁的開頭 可愛的一首
"Swamp Rat" (Jackson, Hancock, Ragin) – 6:26 貝斯
這首 後來有在 http://www.allmusic.com/album/reachin-mw0000898005 這張重錄
 
A flutist known most for his sessions with Mongo Santamaría and the Mizell brothers; released one album of his own, Reachin', in 1976. 
 
Talented as a master flautist and vibraphone player, he has expanded his musical skills by playing the saxophone, clarinet, and oboe, and he continues to compose, and perform songs. He is a solo artist with his own group, but has also performed with Jazz & Latin greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Mongo Santamaria, Herbie Mann, Cal Tjader and Rosemary Clooney.

"Sansho Shima" (Bennie Maupin) – 4:50
 

Personnel[edit] 陣容上的轉變 

 
Again Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards; "Cantelope [sic] Island" is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing. A streamlining process has set in -- the drumming has been simplified, some of the old high-voltage drive has been muted -- yet there are still enough enjoyable, intelligently musical things happening here to hold a Hancock admirer's attention.
 
Still, Secrets is something of a departure for Hancock. A major difference is band personnel, the key being the addition of Wah Wah Watson (aka Melvin Ragin). Watson's guitar and vocals have altered the sound of the band, while his production assistance and songwriting (he cowrote five of the seven tracks) have altered the content. Wah Wah's presence tends to zip Herbie into a formulaic straightjacket.
 
The immediate example is the album's opener, the disco-ish "Doin' It," which for two minutes is an absolute killer, but then boringly repeats itself for another six minutes.
 
 
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另外賀比 在1977年wah wah哥 的 Elementary 有貢獻一首
 
 
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