- Artist:
- Bennie Maupin
The Jewel In The Lotus
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Release date: 16 May 2025
Article Number: 515320000
An unsung modernist classic from 1974 – Pitchfork
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.
Bennie Maupin - Reeds, Voice, Glockenspiel
Herbie Hancock - Piano, Electric Piano
Buster Williams - Bass
Frederick Waits - Drums, Marimba
Billy Hart - Drums
Bill Summers - Percussion
Charles Sullivan - Trumpet
Tracklisting:
A1 Ensenada
A2 Mappo
A3 Excursion
A4 Past + Present = Future
B1 The Jewel In The Lotus
B2 Winds Of Change
B3 Song For Tracie Dixon Summers
B4 Past Is Past