Bennie Maupin – The Jewel In The Lotus (ECM Touchstone) CD

Product Description

Part of the Touchstone series

Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Brown’s Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun.

His recordings under his own name have been infrequent but his leader debut,
is indeed a jewel. “A more selfless album is hard to imagine”, said Down Beat in 1975. “On The Jewel In The Lotus, the sound is supreme, and all the players strive to achieve a thorough blending”. Recorded in New York in 1974, the disc’s personnel is drawn from the circle around Herbie Hancock in the period, but the music has a character all its own.

Personnel: Bennie Maupin (reeds, voice, glockenspiel); Herbie Hancock (piano, electric piano); Buster Williams (bass); Freddie Waits (drums); Billy Hart (drums); Bill Summers (percussion); Charles Sullivan (trumpet)

Tracklist:

Ensenada / Mappo / Excursion / Past + Present = Future / The Jewel In
The Lotus / Winds Of Change / Song For Tracie Dixon Summers / Past Is Past

ECM Touchstone 6743062