Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)
| Crossings | ||||
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| Studio album by Herbie Hancock | ||||
| Released | End of May 1972[1] | |||
| Recorded |
February 1972 Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo Moog and mellotron at Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz, jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 46:21 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | David Rubinson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  [2] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |  [3] |
Crossings is the tenth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in 1972. It is the second album in his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in electronics. Notably, the album is the band's first to feature their new member - synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. He was originally only scheduled to "set up his Moog synthesiser for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleason[sic] not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."[4]
Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994.
Track listing
Original LP
Side A
- "Sleeping Giant" (Herbie Hancock) – 24:50
Side B
- "Quasar" (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27
- "Water Torture" (Maupin) – 14:04
Personnel
- Herbie Hancock - acoustic piano, electric piano, mellotron, percussion
- Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
- Billy Hart - drums, percussion
- Julian Priester - bass, tenor and alto trombones; percussion
- Buster Williams - electric bass, string bass, percussion
- Bennie Maupin - soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion
With:
- Patrick Gleeson - Moog synthesizer
- Victor Pontoja - congas
- Voices - Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Breach
References
- ↑ Billboard May 27, 1972
- ↑ Allmusic review
- ↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 94. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ↑ Stuart Nicholson's notes for the 2001 Warner Bros. CD reissue.
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