Jump to content

Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 67.224.73.221 (talk) at 13:07, 13 April 2022 (Dusty Groove is a commercial establishment and not a valid source for "reviews"). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Crossings
Studio album by
ReleasedEnd of May 1972[1]
RecordedFebruary 15–17, 1972
StudioPacific Recording Studios, San Mateo; Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco
GenreAvant-garde jazz, jazz fusion
Length46:21
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerDavid Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
Mwandishi
(1971)
Crossings
(1972)
Sextant
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

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 and funk with a sextet featuring saxophonist Bennie Maupin, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, trombonist Julian Priester, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart. The album is the band's first to feature synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. He was scheduled to "set up his Moog for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."[5]

Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014.

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

  1. "Sleeping Giant" (Herbie Hancock) – 24:50

Side B

  1. "Quasar" (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27
  2. "Water Torture" (Maupin) – 14:04

Personnel

With:

References

External videos
video icon Herbie Hancock - Sleeping Giant
video icon Herbie Hancock - Water torture
  1. ^ Billboard May 27, 1972
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 94. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 642. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Stuart Nicholson's notes for the 2001 Warner Bros. CD reissue.