Artist: 
Bennie Maupin

The Jewel In The Lotus

Luminessence Series Vinyl
€28,99

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