Sunlight

About Sunlight

Sunlight is an album by keyboardist Herbie Hancock. 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”.

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Critical reception

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'."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Herbie Hancock, except where indicated.

Side one

"I Thought It Was You" (Hancock, Melvin Ragin, Jeffrey Cohen) – 8:56

"Come Running to Me" (lyrics: Allee Willis) – 8:25

Side two

"Sunlight" – 7:12

"No Means Yes" – 6:21

"Good Question" – 8:32

Personnel

Musicians

Herbie Hancock – keyboards, synthesizers, lead and background vocals (through vocoder) (1–3), string, brass and woodwind arrangements

Patrick Gleeson – additional synthesizers (5)

Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone solo (3)

Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker Jr. – guitar (1,3)

Byron Miller (1), Paul Jackson (2–4), Jaco Pastorius (5) – electric bass

Leon "Ndugu" Chancler (1), James Levi (2, 3), Harvey Mason, Sr. (4), Tony Williams (5) – drums

Raul Rekow (exc. 3), Bill Summers (exc. 1) – percussion

Baba Duru – tabla (2)

Bobby Shew, Maurice Spears, Robert O'Bryant, Garnett Brown – brass (exc. 4)

Ernest J. Watts, Fred Jackson, Jr., Jack Nimitz, David Willard Riddles – woodwind (2, 5)

Terry Adams, Roy Malan, Nathan Rubin, Linda Wood, Emily VanValkenburgh – strings (2)

Production

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.

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Notable quotes

“Sun has never deprived anyone of its light and energy irrespective of their caste and religion. Despite this, if it is being linked to communalism then I request such people to stay in their rooms during the day without sunlight.”
— Yogi Adityanath. On religious groups claiming that the Yoga practice Surya Namaskar (Sun Salutation) would cause religious disharmony or be an infidel practice incompatible with Islam or Christianity, as quoted in "People opposed to 'Surya Namaskar' should lock themselves in 'dark room': Yogi Adityanath", Zee News (9 June 2015)
“Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.”
— Georg Fabricius, in praise of Georg Agricola in De Metallicis Rebus (1566); as translated by Herbert Clark Hoover and Lou Henry Hoover in the introduction to their 1912 translation of Agricola's De Re Metallica (1556)
“Thou shall come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.”
— John Lyly, Euphues. Howell, Instructions for Ferreine Travell (1642), Arber's reprint, 1869
“There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
— Jonas Salk, in response to the question regarding his Polio vaccine, "Who owns the patent on this vaccine?" by Edward R. Murrow, in a CBS Television interview, on See It Now (12 April 1955); quoted in Jon Cohen, Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine (2001)
“Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.”
— William Wordsworth, "On Revisiting the Banks of Wye" (1798)
“The sun never leaves my heart, which surpasses a garden.”
— Sumerian proverb, Collection III, ETCSL, 3rd millennium BCE

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