Herbie Hancock - Directstep

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A1	Butterfly Written-By – H. Hancock*, J. Burvick*	7:55
A2	Shiftless Shuffle Written-By – B. Maupin*, B. Summers*, M. Mason*, H. Hancock*, P. Jackson*	7:02
B	I Thought It Was You Written-By – H. Hancock*, J. Cohen*, M. Ragin*	15:32

Companies, etc.

• Manufactured By – CBS/Sony Inc.

Credits

• Art Direction – Yoshio Nakanishi
• Backing Vocals, Organ [Hammond B-3], Synthesizer [Prophet, Yamaha Cs-40, Arp String Ensemble, Multi-moog], Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Webster Lewis
• Bass – Paul Jackson
• Coordinator [Production] – Atsuya Sano, Hiroshi Kanai, Keiichi Nakamura, Namihiko Sasaki, Yasohachi Itoh
• Crew [For Herbie Hancock] – Bill Watts, Brian Bell*, Larry Cell, Pat Quinn
• Design – Kazuyoshi Ujihara
• Drums – Alphonse Mouzon
• Engineer [Assistant] – Hirohiko Yamanaka, Takeshi Sukegawa
• Engineer [Mastering] – Eiji Taniguchi, Mitsuru Kasai
• Engineer [Mixing] – David Rubinson, Fred Catero
• Engineer [Recording] – Brian Bell*, Fred Catero, Tomoo Suzuki
• Guitar – Ray Obiedo
• Liner Notes – Yohzoh Iwanami*
• Percussion – Bill Summers
• Photography By [Cover] – Tadayuki Naitoh
• Photography By [Liner] – Akira Aimi
• Producer – David Rubinson & Friends Inc.*
• Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Lyricon – Bennie Maupin
• Vocals, Electric Piano [Rhodes], Clavinet, Synthesizer [Oberheim, Prophet, Yamaha Cs-80, Mini-moog], Vocoder [Sennheiser] – Herbie Hancock

Notes

Plating and Pressing: CBS/Sony Records
Ⓒ 1979 CBS/Sony Inc. / ℗ 1979 CBS/Sony Inc. / Manufactured by CBS/Sony Inc. (Tokyo Japan)

This is a digital "Direct To Disk" Mastersound Recording
Recorded October 17 & 18, 1978 at CBS/SONY Studio, Tokyo, Japan

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Rights Society: JASRAC

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
30AP 1032	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(LP, Album, Gat)	CBS/Sony	30AP 1032	Japan	1979
WOU 1032	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Wounded Bird Records	WOU 1032	US	2014
38DP 39	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE)	CBS/Sony	38DP 39	Japan	1983
SRCS 9565	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	SME Records	SRCS 9565	Japan	1999
SRCS 7169	Herbie Hancock	Directstep ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Sony Records	SRCS 7169	Japan	1996