Thrust (album)

Thrust
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	September 6, 1974
Recorded	August 1974 Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco
Genre	Jazz-funk, jazz
Length	38:49
Label	Columbia
Producer	David Rubinson & Herbie Hancock
Herbie Hancock chronology
Dedication (1974) Thrust (1974) Death Wish (1974)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Thrust is a jazz-funk album by Herbie Hancock, released in September 6, 1974 on Columbia Records. It served as a follow-up to Hancock's album, Head Hunters (1973), and achieved similar commercial success, as the album reached as high as number 13 on the Billboard Hot 200 listing. The lineup for Thrust is the same as on Head Hunters, except Mike Clark replaced Harvey Mason on drums. This is Hancock's thirteenth album overall.

The composition "Actual Proof" was originally written for the film The Spook Who Sat By the Door, and Hancock has used it as a demonstration of his style of playing the Fender Rhodes piano.^[2]

The composition "Butterfly" would subsequently be performed on the live album, Flood, and two more studio releases: Direct Step and Dis Is Da Drum. Butterfly is the opening track on Eddie Henderson's album Mahal (1978); the album features Hancock on keyboards.^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Herbie Hancock except as indicated

1. "Palm Grease" – 10:38
2. "Actual Proof" – 9:42
3. "Butterfly" (Hancock, Bennie Maupin) – 11:17
4. "Spank-A-Lee" (Hancock, Mike Clark, Paul Jackson) – 7:12

Personnel

• Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner D-6 Clavinet, ARP Odyssey, ARP Soloist, ARP 2600, ARP String Ensemble
• Bennie Maupin – soprano and tenor saxophone, saxello, bass clarinet, alto flute
• Paul Jackson – electric bass
• Mike Clark – drums
• Bill Summers - percussion

References