Jazz Articles about Bennie Maupin

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Bennie Maupin: Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch!

by William Ellis
April 13, 2021

"My One LP--yes, it's the Eric Dolphy album he did on Blue Note called Out to Lunch! The album has Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Richard Davis and Tony Williams, and it is such a phenomenal shift from anything that had been done on Blue Note Records. The compositions and the playing and the quality from Blue Note was always good because of Rudy Van Gelder and he captured this in such a wonderful way, it just resonated with me, you ...

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Cathy Segal-Garcia: The Jazz Chamber

by Jerome Wilson
November 2, 2018

On this album, Cathy Segal-Garcia, a vocalist and educator on the Los Angeles jazz scene, comes up with something special, working with a chamber orchestra and a group of jazz musicians to produce a wide-ranging program that veers from lush romanticism to complex jazz-funk. On much of the disc, Segal-Garcia's thick, classically formal voice, combined with a full string section, presents a lilting hybrid of jazz and light classical music. On first hearing it sounds a bit too ...

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Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 16, 2010

Lussuria. Se ci fosse una legge che limita ad una sola parola le recensioni dei capolavori, questa sarebbe la nostra scelta per il cofanetto Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary, senza alcun dubbio. Per fortuna una legge del genere (per ora) non c'è e quindi possiamo aggiungere altre riflessioni per raccontare meglio la straordinaria importanza di Bitches Brew nel panorama delle arti di ogni tempo e per sottolineare il senso di meraviglia che questo splendido cofanetto ha suscitato anche in chi di ...

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The Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 15, 2009

Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, soprattutto Herbie Hancock e gli Headhunters. Sono, queste, alcune tra le collaborazioni di Bennie Maupin a cavallo tra gli anni '60 e '70. Anni in cui il sassofonista, autentico incarnatore dello Zeitgeist, dello spirito di quei tempi, ha contribuito a riscrivere il linguaggio del jazz, a farlo transitare dal bop verso altre forme più contaminate. Poi, un lungo periodo di pausa. A metà degli anni '90 la ripartenza, ed ora la riscoperta. La ristampa, da parte ...

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Bennie Maupin: Early Reflections & The Jewel In The Lotus

by A. Henkin
June 8, 2008

Bennie Maupin Early Reflections Cryptogramophone 2008 Bennie Maupin The Jewel In The Lotus ECM 2007

The reascendence of Bennie Maupin is a heartening story. After an almost 15-year period (1965-1979 in recorded terms) when the saxophonist was one of the most exciting players in jazz and graced a remarkably wide range ...

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The Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections

by John Kelman
April 18, 2008

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. Re-emerging in the 1990s, it's still only been recently--with the release of the overdue reissue of his 1974 ECM classic, The Jewel in the Lotus in 2007, and his first album as a leader in eight years, the sublime Penumbra (Cryptogramophone, 2006)--that the woodwind multi-instrumentalist has returned to greater visibility. Early Reflections's instrumentation ...

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Bennie Maupin: The Jewel In The Lotus

by Budd Kopman
December 30, 2007

For the collector, a first-time issue on CD of any of ECM's early releases is most welcome. Which ones are chosen for release--and when they are issued--may well appear to be arbitrary to the outsider, despite a certain plan internal to the label.That The Jewel In The Lotus, first released in 1974, has finally been issued on CD is worth celebrating for two reasons: first, the music is of the highest quality; and second, Bennie Maupin has not ...