Sunburst (Eddie Henderson album) explained

Sunburst
Type:	Album
Artist:	Eddie Henderson
Cover:	Sunburst (album).jpg
Released:	1975
Recorded:	March & April, 1975 at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, California
Genre:	Jazz-funk
Length:	37:32
Label:	Blue Note BNLA 464
Producer:	Skip Drinkwater
Chronology:	Eddie Henderson
Prev Title:	Inside Out
Prev Year:	1973
Next Title:	Heritage
Next Year:	1976

Sunburst is an album by American jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 4 stars stating "Switching over to Blue Note, which was then reaping a fortune with Donald Byrd's R&B outfit, Eddie Henderson pursued a harder, earthier, more structured, funk-driven sound on his first album, while maintaining some of his marvelously spacier instincts for spice".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie Henderson except as indicated

1. "Explodition" (George Duke) - 6:41
2. "The Kumquat Kids" (Alphonso Johnson) - 4:30
3. "Sunburst" - 5:49
4. "Involuntary Bliss" (Alphonso Johnson) - 6:52
5. "Hop Scotch" (Harvey Mason) - 3:53
6. "Galaxy" - 6:36
7. "We End in a Dream" (Bennie Maupin) - 3:11

• Recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studios in San Francisco, California in April & May, 1975.

Personnel

• Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet
• Julian Priester - trombone
• Bennie Maupin - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, saxello
• Bobby Hutcherson - marimba (track 6)
• George Duke - electric piano, clavinet, synthesizer
• Buster Williams - bass (track 7)
• Alphonso Johnson - electric bass (tracks 1-6)
• Harvey Mason (tracks 1-6), Billy Hart (track 7) - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-bn-la-series/#bn-la-464-g Blue Note Records discography
2. Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review, accessed January 17, 2011.