Sunburst (Eddie Henderson album)

Sunburst
Studio album by Eddie Henderson
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
Eddie Henderson chronology
Inside Out (1973) Sunburst (1975) Heritage (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]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

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

References

1. Blue Note Records discography, accessed January 17, 2011.
2. Ginell, R. S. Allmusic Review, accessed January 17, 2011.
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 99. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 684. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.