Thrust (album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Thrust

| type = studio

| artist = Herbie Hancock

| cover = Herbie hancock Thrust.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 6, 1974

| recorded = August 1974

| venue =

| studio = Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco; Different Fur Music, San Francisco

| genre = Jazz-funk{{cite web |url=https://beatcaffeine.com/100-best-jazz-funk-songs/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825081205/https://beatcaffeine.com/100-best-jazz-funk-songs/ |title=BeatCaffeine's 100 Best Jazz-Funk Songs |last=Gorton |first=TJ |website=BeatCaffeine |date=July 30, 2018 |archive-date=August 25, 2018 |access-date=September 19, 2021}}

| length = 38:49

| label = Columbia

| producer = David Rubinson, Herbie Hancock

| prev_title = Dedication

| prev_year = 1974

| next_title = Death Wish

| next_year = 1974

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev2 = AllMusic

| rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/thrust-mw0000311449|title=Herbie Hancock: Thrust|author=Ginell, Richard S.|website=AllMusic}}

|rev3 = Christgau's Record Guide

|rev3Score = C+{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: H|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=H&bk=70|access-date=February 24, 2019|via=Robertchristgau.com}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| rev5Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book

|editor-last=Swenson

|editor-first=J.

| year = 1985

| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone

| location = U.S.

| isbn = 0-394-72643-X

| page = 94

}}

|rev1 = All About Jazz

|rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/thrust-herbie-hancock-legacy-recordings-review-by-ester-eggert.php?width=412|title=Herbie Hancock: Thrust|author=Eggert, Ester|date=September 5, 2004|publisher=All About Jazz|website=allaboutjazz.com}}

|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev4score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=642}}

}}

Thrust is the fourteenth studio album by American jazz-funk musician Herbie Hancock, released in September 1974 on Columbia Records.{{cite book|title=Herbie Hancock |date=September 1974|publisher=Columbia Records}} The album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart and No. 13 on the Billboard 200 chart.{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/herbie-hancock/chart-history/blp/|title=Herbie Hancock: Thrust (Top Soul Albums)|publisher=Billboard|website=Billboard.com}}{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/herbie-hancock/chart-history/tlp/|title=Herbie Hancock: Thrust (Billboard 200)|publisher=Billboard|website=Billboard.com}} It is the second album featuring the Headhunters: saxophonist Bennie Maupin, bass guitarist Paul Jackson, drummer Mike Clark (replacing Harvey Mason in this role) and percussionist Bill Summers.

Background

Thrust was produced by David Rubinson and Hancock.

Covers

"Actual Proof" was covered by the Peter Zak Trio (2006) and Roberta Piket (2015).

The composition "Butterfly" was subsequently performed by Hancock himself in his live album Flood (1975), in two studio albums of Direct Step (1979) and Dis Is da Drum (1994), and in Kimiko Kasai's album Butterfly (1979).

"Butterfly" was also covered by Norman Connors (1978), Eddie Henderson (1978), Toto (2002), Austin Peralta (2006), Azymuth (2008), Robert Glasper Experiment, and Gretchen Parlato (2009).

"Spank-a-Lee" was covered by Mitchel Forman (2001).{{cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/release/6876|title=Herbie Hancock: Thrust|website=Secondhandsongs.com |access-date=November 10, 2021 }}

In popular culture

A variation of the composition "Palm Grease" was used in the 1974 vigilante film Death Wish, starring Charles Bronson.

The composition "Actual Proof" was originally written for the 1973 film The Spook Who Sat by the Door, and Hancock has used it as a demonstration of his style of playing the Fender Rhodes piano.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fenderrhodes.com/history/audio.html|title=Audio Archives|website=Fenderrhodes.com|access-date=September 6, 2024}}