Having long since established his funk credentials,
Herbie Hancock continues the direction of
Head Hunters and its U.S. successors here, welding himself to the groove on electric keyboards while
Bennie Maupin again shines sardonic beams of light on a variety of reeds. In "Doin' It," the most successful track,
Hancock makes a more overt bid for the dancefloor, for the tune is basically one long irresistible groove with a very commercial-sounding bridge. Again
Hancock chooses to recompose one of his standards; "Cantelope [sic] Island" is almost unrecognizable converted into a sauntering, swaggering thing. A streamlining process has set in -- the drumming has been simplified, some of the old high-voltage drive has been muted -- yet there are still enough enjoyable, intelligently musical things happening here to hold a
Hancock admirer's attention. ~ Richard S. Ginell