Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
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Artist: Bennie MaupinEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Ensenada
- Mappo
- Excursion
- Past + Present = Future
- Jewel in the Lotus
- Winds of Change
- Song for Tracie Dixon Summers
- Past Is Past
Music reviews of The Jewel in the Lotus
Music Review: Organic
Rating: 4 Stars
Recorded back in 1974 but making its first appearance on CD in 2008 is this vintage recording from ECM that features the impressive lineup of Bennie Maupin on reeds, voice, and glockenspiel; Herbie Hancock on piano and electric piano; Buster Williams on bass; Freddie Waits on drums and marimba; Billy Hart on drums; Bill Summers on drums and percussion, and Charles Sullivan on trumpet. Although the appearance of three percussionists might make it seems as though this would be some sort of Latin/funk rave-up, a glance at the title offers a more revealing clue. This is music that is inwardly directed, expressive of reflection rather than reflective of expression. Still, with three percussionists, Herbie Hancock, and a trumpet, you are reminded that jewels, even when encased in flowers, are hard and brilliant.
Buster Williams on bass really drives this music, creating not so much a foundation as a core around which the other musicians add layers of sound. The end result sounds, to use an overused term, organic. The whole truly is greater than the sum of the parts. Bennie Maupin put together a wonderful recording back in 1974, making The Jewel in the Lotus quite a welcome re-release from ECM.
Description of The Jewel in the Lotus
Bennie Maupin was one of the first musicians to record for ECM, playing on a Marion Brown record in August 1970, when the label was just a few months old. Born in Detroit in 1940, Maupin was encouraged in his early musical development by Yusef Lateef, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. Jack DeJohnette introduced him to Miles Davis, and Bennie's bass clarinet was to become one of the signature sounds of the epochal Bitches Brew. The early 70s, however, were spent mostly working with Herbie Hancock's ensembles and The Jewel In The Lotus is essentially a pooling of players from the Hancock circle, including Herbie himself in his only ECM appearance. The Jewel In The Lotus was Bennie Maupin's first leader record. The album was recorded in March 1974, and could be described as a sequence of pulsing tone-poems, full of glowing, compound sound-colors and subtle interactions - a jazz-and-Buddhism-inspired floating chamber music that was way ahead of its time. The recording shows Maupin very much concerned with the totality of the musical conception, with the form as a whole. He is an exceptional improviser, thinking compositionally and directing group music in the moment.General CDs
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