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Released
  
January 14, 1982

Length
  
55:56

Release date
  
14 January 1982

Label
  
Elektra/Musician

Recorded
  
1981–1982

Artist
  
Echoes of an Era

Producer
  
Lenny White

Genre
  
Jazz

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Echoes of an Era is an album by American R&B/jazz singer Chaka Khan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White, released in 1982 on Elektra Records.

Contents

Echoes of an Era sees Khan interpreting jazz standards like Thelonious Monk's "I Mean You" and Duke Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train", as well as "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most", "All of Me", and "I Loves You Porgy". The album was originally not released as a Chaka Khan studio album (who was signed to Warner Bros. Records at the time) but as a band collaboration under the moniker Echoes of an Era and with all six performers credited on the album cover.

The album was digitally remastered and re-released by the Warner Music Group's sublabel Rhino Entertainment in 2003. The final track, "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most", included a 'bonus track' of Chaka Khan and Freddie Hubbard in an interview, and as such was extended to 16:09.

In 2011 album Forever by Corea, Clarke and White, they re-recorded "High Wire – The Aerialist" and "I Loves You Porgy" featuring Khan on vocals.

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Personnel

  • Chaka Khan - vocals
  • Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone
  • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn
  • Chick Corea - piano
  • Stanley Clarke - acoustic bass
  • Lenny White - drums
  • Production

  • Lenny White - record producer
  • Benny Kirsch - sound engineer
  • Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, California.
  • Songs

    1Them There Eyes3:52
    2All of Me4:35
    3I Mean You3:29

    References

    Echoes of an Era Wikipedia