Learn Herbie Hancock - 1972 [2014] Crossings

Disc: 3
1972 "Crossings"

Crossings is the 10th album past times jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released inward 1972. It is the 2d album inward his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting inward electronics. Notably, the album is the band's commence to characteristic their novel fellow member - synthesizer histrion Patrick Gleeson. He was originally exclusively scheduled to "set upwardly his Moog synthesiser for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was together with hence impressed alongside Gleeson that he "asked Gleason[sic] non exclusively to practice the overdubs on the album precisely bring together the group.

With the frenzied knocking of what sounds similar a clock store gone berserk, Crossings takes artist/the-herbie-hancock-sextet-mn0000957296">the Herbie Hancock Sextet fifty-fifty farther into the electrical avant-garde, creating its ain idiom. Now, however, the sextet has run a septet alongside the add-on of artist/dr-patrick-gleeson-mn0000134560">Dr. Patrick Gleeson on Moog synthesizer, whose electronic decorations, pitchless together with not, give the band an fifty-fifty spacier edge. Again, in that place are exclusively 3 tracks -- the centerpiece existence artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock's multi-faceted, open-structured suite inward v parts called "Sleeping Giant." Nearly 25 minutes long yet amazingly cohesive, "Sleeping Giant" gathers a lot of its forcefulness from a serial of funky grooves -- the near rigid of which explodes at the tail-end of Part Two -- together with artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock's on-edge Fender Rhodes electrical pianoforte solos anticipate his funk adventures after inward the '70s. artist/bennie-maupin-mn0000790496">Bennie Maupin's "Quasar" pushes the session into extraterrestrial territory, dominated past times artist/gleeson-mn0000134560">Gleeson's wild Moog effects together with trumpeter artist/eddie-henderson-mn0000169948">Eddie Henderson's patented fluttering air trumpet. Even stranger is artist/maupin-mn0000790496">Maupin's "Water Torture," which saunters along freely alongside splashes of colouring from artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock's spooky Mellotron together with fuzz-wah-pedaled Fender Rhodes piano, artist/gleeson-mn0000134560">Gleeson's electronics, together with a quintet of voices. Still a challenging sonic experience, this music (which tin sack hold upwardly heard on Warners' Mwandishi two-CD set) has yet to notice its audience, though the electronica-minded youth ought to notice it dazzling.

Track listing:

1. Sleeping Giant (24:48)
2. Quasar (7:25)
3. Water Torture (13:54)

Total Time 46:21

Personnel:

Herbie Hancock - Piano, Electric Piano, Mellotron, Percussion
Eddie Henderson - Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion
Billy Hart - Drums, Percussion
Julian Priester - Bass, Tenor together with Alto Trombone, Percussion
Buster Williams - Electric Bass, Bass, Percussion
Bennie Maupin - Soprano Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Piccolo, Percussion
Patrick Gleeson - Moog Synthesizer
Victor Pontoja - Congas
Voices - Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Breach