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Cathy Segal-Garcia: The Jazz Chamber
by Jerome Wilson
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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections
by AAJ Italy Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingBennie Maupin: Early Reflections & The Jewel In The Lotus
by Andrey Henkin
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 ...
Continue ReadingThe Bennie Maupin Quartet: Early Reflections
by John Kelman
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 ...
Continue ReadingBennie Maupin: The Jewel In The Lotus
by Budd Kopman
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 ...
Continue ReadingBennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non mi stupirebbe che, in una delle tante trasmissioni televisive che si occupano di misteri, proponessero un servizio sul perché The Jewel in the Lotus di Bennie Maupin sia rimasto per così tanto tempo privato dell'onore della ristampa in CD. Artista appartenente alla scena di Detroit, Maupin ha attraversato in modo poco appariscente, ma in realtà intenso, le vicende del jazz contemporaneo a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni Sessanta, comparendo a fianco di Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, ...
Continue ReadingBennie Maupin: The Jewel in the Lotus
by John Kelman
Of the ECM titles that have remained unavailable on CD, woodwind multi-instrumentalist Bennie Maupin's The Jewel in the Lotus (1974) has long been considered a holy grail for collectors in search of a vinyl copy, and a title that's been on many fans' wish lists for release on CD. Well, it's finally happened and it's been worth the wait. Those familiar will recognize it as still classic thirty years on; for those unfamiliar with its magic, it's time to get ...
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