Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin (born 29 August 1940) is a Detroit jazz multireedist. He performs on saxophones, flute and bass clarinet.

He is probably best-known for his membership in Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi sextet and Headhunters band, and for performing on Miles Davis's seminal fusion record, Bitches Brew. Maupin has collaborated with Horace Silver, Roy Haynes and many others. He has also performed on several Meat Beat Manifesto albums. He is noted for having a very harmonically-advanced, "out" improvisation style, while having a different sense of melodic direction than other "out" Jazz musicians such as Eric Dolphy. As a composer, he has a unique ability to create brief melodies and song forms that manage to create vast landscapes for improvisation.

Discography

As a Leader

• "Penumbra"
• "The Maupin/Williams Project" with John B. Williams
• "Driving While Black"
• Almanac - Project with Cecil McBee and others, see Almanac (Jazz).
• "The Jewel in the Lotus"
• "Slow Traffic to the Right"

As a Sideman

• Lee Morgan: "Live At The Lighthouse", "Caramba"
• Miles Davis: "Bitches Brew", "A Tribute To Jack Johnson", "Big Fun", "On The Corner"
• Herbie Hancock: "Mwandishi", "Crossings", "Sextant", "Dis Is Da Drum"
• Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters: "Headhunters", Thrust, "Man-Child", "Secrets", "V.S.O.P.", "Sunlight"
• Eddie Henderson: "Inside Out", "Equinox"
• McCoy Tyner: "Together", "Tender Moments"
• Marion Brown: "Juba Lee"
• Mike Clark: "Actual Proof"
• Head Hunters: "Survival of the Fittest"

External links

• Jazz Journalist interviews Bennie Maupin at the 2006 27th Detroit International Jazz Festival. Podcast provided by Detroit jazzstage]