Album
Crossings
1972 · Jazz
17 collectors on Gatefold own this
Crossings is a Jazz album by Herbie Hancock, originally released in 1972. On Gatefold: 46 pressings tracked, owned by 17 collectors.
About
The last of three albums Herbie Hancock cut for Warner Bros., <i>Crossings</i> seems to get the least amount of attention. With <i>Fat Albert Rotunda</i> being a deeply funky affair and <i>Mwandishi</i> firmly in the avant-garde, this 1972 set doesn’t have the shock value of the second album but is just as challenging. It opens with the ambitious, five-part “Sleeping Giant” (here collected as one track), with African-style hand percussion and standard trap drums adding a tribal 6/8-time earthiness to the electric space jams. Hancock’s great sense of rhythm is quite apparent in smoothing over the odd time signatures here, with excellent work also coming from trombonist Julian Priester and alto clarinetist Bennie Maupin. “Quasar" and “Water Torture,” which are both Maupin compositions, seem to highlight the arrival of Patrick Gleeson’s textural synthesizer work, but they offer their own kernels of melody amid the exploration. Miles Davis was famous for using postproduction cut-and-paste during this period, but this septet made music that (minus the occasional gimmicky echo effects) was more organic.
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Tracklist
Side A
- ASleeping Giant24:50
Side B
- B1Quasar7:27
- B2Water Torture14:04
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Jazz Fusion
- dense
- meditative
- spiritual
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bennie MaupinSOPRANO SAXOPHONE, ALTO FLUTE, BASS CLARINET, PERCUSSION, PICCOLO FLUTE SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, ALTO FLUTE, BASS CLARINET, PICCOLO FLUTE , PERCUSSION SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, ALTO FLUTE, BASS CLARINET, PICCOLO FLUTE, PERCUSSION
- Billy HartDRUMS DRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Buster WilliamsBASS, ELECTRIC BASS, PERCUSSION BASS, PERCUSSION ELECTRIC BASS, BASS, PERCUSSION
- Candy LoveVOCALS
- Della HorneVOCALS
- Eddie HendersonTRUMPET, FLUGELHORN , PERCUSSION TRUMPET, FLUGELHORN, PERCUSSION
- Herbie HancockELECTRIC PIANO, MELLOTRON, PIANO, PERCUSSION ELECTRIC PIANO, PIANO, MELLOTRON, PERCUSSION
- JabaliDRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Julian PriesterALTO TROMBONE, BASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, PERCUSSION BASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, ALTO TROMBONE, PERCUSSION BASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, PERCUSSION, ALTO TROMBONE
- MchezajiELECTRIC BASS, BASS, PERCUSSION
- MwandishiELECTRIC PIANO, PIANO, MELLOTRON, PERCUSSION
- MwileSOPRANO SAXOPHONE, ALTO FLUTE, BASS CLARINET, PICCOLO FLUTE, BODY PERCUSSION SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, ALTO FLUTE, BASS CLARINET, PICCOLO FLUTE, PERCUSSION
- Patrick GleasonSYNTHESIZER
- Patrick GleesonGUEST , SYNTHESIZER SYNTHESIZER
- PepoBASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, ALTO TROMBONE, PERCUSSION BASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, TROMBONE , PERCUSSION
- Pepo MtotoBASS TROMBONE, TENOR TROMBONE, TROMBONE , PERCUSSION
- Sandra StevensVOCALS
- Scott BeachVOCALS
17 collectors on Gatefold own this · 46 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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