''Like Children'' is an album by

Jan Hammer Jan Hammer () (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-American musician, composer, and record producer. He rose to prominence while playing keyboards with the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the early 1970s, as well as with his film scores for television an ...

and

Jerry Goodman Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist known for playing electric violin with The Flock (band), The Flock and the jazz fusion ensemble Mahavishnu Orchestra. Career Jerry Goodman was born on March 16, 1949, in Chicago, Ill ...

. It was released in 1974 by

Nemperor Records Nemperor Records was an American jazz and pop music record label active from 1974 to 1986. It was distributed by Atlantic Records from 1974 to 1977 and then Columbia Records, CBS Records from 1978 until the label was absorbed by subsidiary Epic ...

. Both musicians were members of the

Mahavishnu Orchestra The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1971, led by English guitarist John McLaughlin (musician), John McLaughlin. The group underwent several line-up changes throughout its history across its two periods of a ...

Reception

In a review for

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, Michael G. Nastos wrote: "'Country and Eastern Music' and 'Steppings Tones' were high-water marks for this new breed (at the time)." A writer for

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called the album "an exceptional first effort," and commented: "It fully shows their influences on the group's sound as they play every instrument on the album. Each of them is an excellent musician and ably displays it."

Track listing

# "Country and Eastern Music" (Hammer) – 5:36 # "No Fear" (Hammer) – 3:28 # "I Remember Me" (Hammer) – 3:48 # "Earth (Still Our Only Home)" (Hammer) – 4:16 # "Topeka" (Goodman) – 2:57 # "Steppings Tones" ( Rick Laird) – 3:30 # "Night" (Hammer, David Earle Johnson) – 5:48 # "Full Moon Boogie" (Hammer, Goodman) – 4:12 # "Giving in Gently"/"I Wonder" (Hammer, Ivona Reich, Goodman) – 4:43

Personnel

* Jan Hammer - vocals, keyboards,

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

(acoustic and electric),

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer ( ) is a modular synthesizer invented by the American engineer Robert Moog in 1964. Moog's company, R. A. Moog Co., produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 2014. It was the first commercial synthesizer ...

s (lead and bass), sequencing, drums, percussion * Jerry Goodman - vocals, rhythm, lead and acoustic guitars,

violin The violin, sometimes referred to as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family. Smaller violin-type instruments exist, including the violino picc ...

(electric and acoustic),

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

(acoustic and electric),

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

References

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