Personnel Bennie Maupin clarinetto basso, sax tenore e soprano, flauto ; Michal Tokaj piano ; Michal Baranski contrabbasso ; Lukasz Zyta batteria, percussioni ; Hania Chowaniec-Rybka voce nelle tracce 4, 13. Early Reflections Label: Released: 2009 Views: 1,185 Track Listing 01. I had some planned rhythmic material. He finally debuted it around 1966, when he was playing with McCoy Tyner. Breaking up the extended tracks are four miniature collective improvisations that bear a surprising sense of construction.
See details for additional description. And then I might go to a jam session with whoever was around-and there were some very good guys around. But I already had an idea of where I wanted to go musically. However, to expand our offerings and develop new means to foster jazz discovery we need your help. Maupin played regularly with Roy Haynes 1966-1968 and Horace Silver 1968-1969 , recording with McCoy Tyner 1968 , Lee Morgan 1970 , and Woody Shaw. But it was so dry and there was such a lack of creativity-not a lack of musicianship, certainly. I had my day gig with the lab animals, then I had my night gigs, which were usually on the weekends-Brooklyn, Mt.
And it was Coltrane, he says, who encouraged him to go to New York. While playing in Poland, Maupin was knocked out by some local musicians. At 77 minutes, the disc never grows tiresome, despite its meditative, contemplative nature. You could come out here, have great weather, and live in a house instead of an apartment. But mostly I tried to keep the pre-planned stuff to a minimum.
When he arrived, he found the lifestyle to his liking, but he was less enthusiastic about the creative environment. But while its intro is more vibrant in tone, it ultimately morphs into a brooding ballad feature for the impressionistic Tokaj. It is a matter of quality over quantity. The price may be the seller's own price elsewhere or another seller's price. Early Reflections followed two years later.
It is one of the most gorgeous bossas on record. So a lot of what I did was just mirror in certain ways what he was playing. The veteran Detroit-born multi-reedman Bennie Maupin has been criminally under-recorded as a leader with just five previous albums under his own name in the last 35 years. Patient and emotive, it is destined to be one of the great releases of 2008. And they do all kinds of gigs, playing every imaginable style.
And then I also started to recognize that L. Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in artists who first made their name in decades past. Early Reflections features a brilliant new version of Maupin's classic composition, The Jewel in the Lotus. Maupin started playing tenor in high school and attended the Detroit Institute for Musical Arts, playing locally in Detroit. Title: Year Released: 2008 Record Label:. Not Later Than Now; 09.
For this date, the reedsman recruited a rhythm section from Poland plus a vocalist for two tunes and recorded in Warsaw. Davis asked him to play on the album he was just beginning to record-Bitches Brew. After establishing his reputation in the 1960s and 1970s with artists including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, Bennie Maupin mysteriously disappeared for over a decade. I sat there all night. When Hancock broke up his group to form the more commercial Headhunters in 1973, Maupin was the only holdover. The song is segmented to a degree; it builds and releases tension, takes a breather and begins anew with a fresh solo. But prior commitments only allowed the pianist, Michal Tokaj, and the vocalist, Hania Chowaniec-Rybka, to make the trip.
But I also added three or four things that were pretty much collective and spontaneous. Personnel: Bennie Maupin: bass clarinet; tenor and soprano saxophones, alto flute; Michal Tokaj: piano; Michal Baranski: bass; Lukasz Zyta: drums, percussion; Hania Chowaniec-Rybka: voice 4, 13. Thirty-four years later, he has totally reworked its beautiful title track. Recording period between 1967-1979 Bennie Maupin is best-known for his association with Herbie Hancock and his atmospheric bass clarinet playing on Miles Davis' classic Bitches Brew album. The Jewel in the Lotus; 06. And his new recording, Early Reflections Cryptogramophone , recorded in Warsaw with a band of Polish musicians, is a definitive display of what can happen when improvisation becomes the ultimate form of communication.
And I think he liked the fact that I was comfortable enough with him to just do that. After recording with Miles, he joined the Herbie Hancock Sextet. Cryptogramophone is all about creativity, emotion and technique coming together in the moment -- the moment when composition and improvisation meet to create art. I got to produce it, compose my music, everything. So it worked out pretty well.