Butterfly (Kimiko Kasai album)

1979 studio album by Kimiko Kasai with Herbie Hancock

Butterfly

Studio album by Kimiko Kasai with Herbie Hancock
Released	1979
Recorded	October 1979
Studio	CBS/Sony Studio, Tokyo
Genre	Jazz-funk
Label	CBS/Sony
Producer	David Rubinson and Herbie Hancock

Professional ratings
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All About Jazz

Butterfly is a studio album by Kimiko Kasai with Herbie Hancock, originally released only in Japan in 1979. This is the only vocal collection album of Hancock's compositions, including six tracks, with accompaniment by Hancock's regular group. The title track "Butterfly" makes an appearance following the original album Thrust (1974), and this is also a vocal version. In 2018, this album was reissued in the UK from Be With Records.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Thought It Was You"	H. Hancock, Melvin M. Ragin, Jeffrey E. Cohen	7:10
2.	"Tell Me A Bedtime Story" (lyrics by Jean Hancock)	H. Hancock	5:11
3.	"Head In The Clouds"	D. Graselli, M. Malanet	3:40
4.	"Maiden Voyage" (lyrics by Jean Hancock)	H. Hancock	7:25

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
5.	"Harvest Time" (lyrics by Jean Hancock)	H. Hancock	4:55
6.	"Sunlight"	H. Hancock	6:15
7.	"Butterfly" (arranged by Jacques Burvick, lyrics by Jean Hancock)	H. Hancock, Bennie Maupin	6:13
8.	"As"	Stevie Wonder	6:16

Personnel

Kimiko Kasai - vocals
Herbie Hancock - keyboards, synthesisers, vocoder
Webster Lewis - organ, synthesizers
Bennie Maupin - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Ray Obiedo - guitar
Paul Jackson - bass
Alphonse Mouzon - drums
Bill Summers - percussion

References

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