 "Man-Child" features less improvisation from the whole band and more concentrated grooves with brief solos from the horns and Hancock himself on synthesizer and Fender Rhodes piano on top of the repeated riffs.This album features the addition of electric guitar to his new sound, which he started only five years prior to this album with "Fat Albert Rotunda".The guitarists featured on this album were Melvin "Wah-Wah Watson" Ragin, DeWayne "Blackbyrd" McKnight and David T. Walker.