''Sunburst'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter Eddie Henderson recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.Blue Note Records discography
accessed January 17, 2011.

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

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'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".Ginell, R. S
Allmusic Review
accessed January 17, 2011.

Track listing

:''All compositions by Eddie Henderson except as indicated'' # "Explodition" (

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) - 6:41 # "The Kumquat Kids" (

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) - 4:30 # "Sunburst" - 5:49 # "Involuntary Bliss" (

) - 6:52 # "Hop Scotch" (

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) - 3:53 # "Galaxy" - 6:36 # "We End in a Dream" (

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) - 3:11 :*Recorded at Wally Heider Sound Studios in San Francisco, California in April & May, 1975.

Personnel

* Eddie Henderson - trumpet,

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cornet The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a sopr ...

* Julian Priester - trombone *

- tenor saxophone,

bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave bel ...

, saxello *

Bobby Hutcherson Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album '' Components'', is one of his best-known compositions.Huey, Steve. "Components – Bob ...

- marimba (track 6) *

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

clavinet The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany, from 1964 to 1982. The instrument produces sounds by a rubber pad striking a point on a tension ...

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

Buster Williams Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942) is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, working with guitarist Larry Coryell from the 1980s to present, working in th ...

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(track 7) *

- electric bass (tracks 1-6) *

(tracks 1-6),

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(track 7) -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

References

{{Authority control 1975 albums Blue Note Records albums Eddie Henderson (musician) albums Albums recorded at Wally Heider Studios