Side one

1. "Samba L.A." (Lyrics Tony Cohan
   Tony Cohan
   Tony Cohan is an American travel writer, novelist, and lyricist. His best known work of travel writing is On Mexican Time. His novel Canary was selected New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his novel Opium was a Literary Guild Selection. His memoir Native State was chosen Los Angeles Times...
   
   ) – 5:52
2. "The Embrace" (Lyrics Tony Cohan
   Tony Cohan
   Tony Cohan is an American travel writer, novelist, and lyricist. His best known work of travel writing is On Mexican Time. His novel Canary was selected New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and his novel Opium was a Literary Guild Selection. His memoir Native State was chosen Los Angeles Times...
   
   ) – 5:52
3. "Tap Step" – 8:19

Side two

1. "Magic Carpet" – 6:51
2. "The Slide" – 6:47
3. "Grandpa Blues" (Vocoder Lyrics Chick Corea) - 4:03
4. "Flamenco" - 3:34

Personnel

• Chick Corea
  Chick Corea
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
  
   - Clavinet
  Clavinet
  A Clavinet is an electrically amplified keyboard instrument manufactured by the Hohner company. It is essentially an electronically amplified clavichord, analogous to an electric guitar. Its distinctive bright staccato sound has appeared particularly in funk, disco, rock, and reggae songs.Various...
  
  , OB-X
  Oberheim OB-X
  The Oberheim OB-X is an analog polyphonic synthesizer. It was the first Oberheim synthesizer that was created with internal prewired modules and not with the bulky SEM modules. Because of this, it was more functional for live performance, and therefore more portable. It was introduced in 1979 and...
  
  , Moog 55, Acoustic Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , Minimoog
  Minimoog
  The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer, invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog. It was released in 1970 by R.A. Moog Inc. , and production was stopped in 1981. It was re-designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager.The Minimoog was designed in response to the use of...
  
  , Rhodes, Fender Rhodes, Vocoder
  Vocoder
  A vocoder is an analysis/synthesis system, mostly used for speech. In the encoder, the input is passed through a multiband filter, each band is passed through an envelope follower, and the control signals from the envelope followers are communicated to the decoder...
  
  , Piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  , Handclaps
• Gayle Moran
  Gayle Moran
  Gayle Moran is a vocalist, keyboard player , and songwriter. She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the middle 70s, appearing on Apocalypse and Visions of the Emerald Beyond . She later appeared on recordings by Return to Forever, e.g. Musicmagic , and Chick Corea, e.g...
  
   - Vocals on Samba L.A. and The Embrace
• Flora Purim
  Flora Purim
  Flora Purim is a Brazilian jazz singer known primarily for her work in the jazz fusion style. She became prominent for her part in Chick Corea's landmark album Return to Forever...
  
   - Vocals on Samba L.A.
• Shelby Flint
  Shelby Flint
  Shelby Flint is a singer who had two top-100 hits, "Angel on My Shoulder" in 1961 and "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" in 1966....
  
   - Vocals on Samba L.A.
• Nani Villa Brunel - Vocals on Samba L.A.
• Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira
  Airto Moreira is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. Airto is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. He currently resides in Los Angeles.-Biography:...
  
   - Snare Drums, Tamborim, Whistle Drums, Pandero on Samba L.A. and Cuica
  Cuíca
  Cuíca , or "kweeca", is a Brazilian friction drum often used in samba music. The tone it produces has a high-pitched squeaky timbre. It has been called a 'laughing gourd' due to this sound....
  
   on The Slide'
• Laudir de Oliveira - Surdo
  Surdo
  For the football player of the same name see Surdu.The surdo is a large bass drum used in many kinds of Brazilian music, most notably in Axé/Samba-reggae and samba and its variants, where it plays the lower parts from a percussion section....
  
  , Agogô
  Agogô
  An agogô is a single or multiple bell now used throughout the world but with origins in traditional Yoruba music and also in the samba baterias . The agogô may be the oldest samba instrument and was based on West African Yoruba single or double bells...
  
  , Ganza
  Ganza
  The ganzá is a Brazilian rattle used as a percussion instrument, especially in samba music.The ganzá is cylindrically shaped, and can be either a hand-woven basket or a metal canister which is filled with beads, metal balls, pebbles, or other similar items. Those made from metal produce a...
  
  , Tamborim on Samba L.A. and Agogo on The Slide
• Hubert Laws
  Hubert Laws
  Hubert Laws is an American flutist and saxophonist with a 40+ year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist...
  
   - Flute
  Flute
  The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...
  
   on The Embrace and Piccolo on Flamenco
• Bunny Brunel
  Bunny Brunel
  Bunny Brunel is a French-born American bass guitarist who has played with various jazz notables including Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and numerous others...
  
   - Fretless Bass on all tracks except Samba L. A., Yamaha 2000 on The Embrace
• Tom Brechtlein - Drums on all tracks except Samba L. A.
• Don Alias
  Don Alias
  Charles 'Don' Alias was an American jazz percussionist.Alias was best known for playing congas and other hand drums...
  
   - Congas on The Embrace, Magic Carpet and Lya drums on The Slide
• Al Vizzutti - Trumpets on The Embrace, Tap Step, Magic Carpet and Flugelhorn on The Embrace
• Joe Farrell
  Joe Farrell
  Joseph Carl Firrantello , known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist. He is best known for a series of albums under his own name on the CTI record label and for playing in the initial incarnation of Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:Farrell was born in Chicago...
  
   - Tenor saxophone on Tap Step and Magic Carpet, Soprano saxophone on Flamenco
• Jamie Faunt - Piccolo bass on The Slide
• Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
   - Piccolo bass and Talk box on Grandpa Blues
• Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson
  Joe Henderson was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note.-Early life:From a very large family with five sisters and nine...
  
  - Tenor saxophone on Flamenco

External links

• [ Allmusic Chick Corea Tap Step]