Echoes of an Era

Infobox Album |
Name = Echoes of an Era
Type = Album
Artist = Chaka Khan et al


Released = 1982
Recorded = —
Genre = Jazz
Length = 55:56
Label = Elektra Records
Producer = Lenny White
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3pftxqraldae]
Last album = "What Cha' Gonna Do for Me"
(1981)
This album = "Echoes of an Era"
(1982)
Next album = "Chaka Khan"
(1982)

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

"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.

Track listing

#"Them There Eyes" (Pinkard, Tauber, Tracey) - 3:52
#"All of Me" (Marks, Simons) - 4:35
#"I Mean You" (Hawkins, Monk) - 3:28
#"I Loves You, Porgy" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 6:29
#"Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) - 6:26
#"I Hear Music" (Lane, Loesser) - 4:22
#"High Wire -- The Aerialist" (Corea, Marks) - 6:29
#"All of Me" (Alternate take) (Marks, Simons) - 4:16
#"Spring Can Really Hang You up the Most" (Landesman, Wolf) - 16:09

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.