Bennie Maupin

Bennie Maupin
Background information
Birth name	Benjamin Maupin
Born	(1940-08-29) August 29, 1940 Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, jazz fusion
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Saxophone, flute, bass clarinet
Labels	Columbia, ECM, Mercury, Cryptogramophone
Associated acts	Almanac, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Meat Beat Manifesto, Horace Silver, Roy Haynes

Bennie Maupin (born August 29, 1940) is an American jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet.

Maupin was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He is known for his participation 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, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan and many others. He is noted for having a harmonically-advanced, "out" improvisation style, while having a different sense of melodic direction than other "out" jazz musicians such as Eric Dolphy.

Maupin was a member of Almanac, a group with Cecil McBee (bass), Mike Nock (piano) and Eddie Marshall (drums).

The Headhunters in 1974. Maupin is on the right, holding a bass clarinet

Discography

As leader

• The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM, 1974)
• Slow Traffic to the Right (Mercury, 1977)
• Moonscapes (Mercury, 1978)
• Driving While Black with Patrick Gleeson (Intuition, 1998)
• Penumbra (Cryptogramophone, 2006)
• Early Reflections (Cryptogramophone, 2008)

As sideman

With John Beasley

• Positootly!

With Marion Brown

• Marion Brown Quartet (ESP-Disk, 1966)
• Juba-Lee (Fontana, 1967)
• Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (ECM, 1970)

With George Cables

• Shared Secrets (MuseFX, 2001)

With Mike Clark

• Actual Proof

With Miles Davis

• Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970)
• A Tribute to Jack Johnson (1971)
• On the Corner (Columbia, 1972)
• Big Fun (Columbia, 1974)

With Chick Corea

• The Complete "Is" Sessions (1969)

With Jack DeJohnette

• The DeJohnette Complex (1969)
• Have You Heard? (1970)

With Patrick Gleeson and Jim Lang (Electronic Musical Industries, 2008)

• Jazz Criminal

With Herbie Hancock

• Mwandishi (1971)
• Crossings (1972)
• Sextant (1972)
• Head Hunters (1973)
• Thrust (1974)
• Flood (1975)
• Man-Child (1975)
• Secrets (1976)
• VSOP (1976)
• Sunlight (1978)
• Directstep (1979)
• Feets, Don't Fail Me Now (1979)
• Mr. Hands (1980)
• Dis Is da Drum (1994)

With The Headhunters

• Survival of the Fittest (1975)
• Straight from the Gate (1977)
• Return of the Headhunters (1998)

With Eddie Henderson

• Realization (Capricorn, 1973)
• Inside Out (Capricorn, 1974)
• Sunburst (Blue Note, 1975)
• Mahal (Capitol, 1978)

With Andrew Hill

• One for One (Blue Note, 1965)

With Lee Morgan

• Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note, 1970)
• Caramba! (Blue Note, 1968)
• Taru (Blue Note, 1980)

With Darek Oleszkiewicz

• Like a Dream

With the Jimmy Owens-Kenny Barron Quintet

• You Had Better Listen (Atlantic, 1967)

With Woody Shaw

• Blackstone Legacy (Contemporary, 1970)
• Song of Songs (Contemporary, 1972)

With Horace Silver

• Serenade to a Soul Sister (Blue Note, 1968)
• You Gotta Take a Little Love (Blue Note, 1969)

With Lonnie Smith

• Turning Point (Blue Note, 1969)

With Jarosław Śmietana

• A Story of Polish Jazz (JSR, 2004)

With McCoy Tyner

• Tender Moments (Blue Note, 1968)
• Together (Milestone, 1978)

With Lenny White

• Big City

With Meat Beat Manifesto

• Actual Sounds + Voices