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Article: Interview

Bennie Maupin: Miles Beyond

Read "Bennie Maupin: Miles Beyond" reviewed by Rex  Butters


For forty years, Bennie Maupin has played with the giants of jazz, starting with Roy Haynes, Horace Silver, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, and Marion Brown. A call from Miles Davis put Maupin in the line up that recorded his most earth shaking albums including Bitches Brew (Columbia/Legacy, 1969), Big Fun (Columbia/Legacy, 1974) and On the Corner ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Various Artists: Baritone Guitars & Bass Clarinets

Read "Various Artists: Baritone Guitars & Bass Clarinets" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


The Bennie Maupin Ensemble Penumbra Cryptogramophone 2006 Bennie Maupin has been standing in the shadows, enhancing the music of such high-profilers as Miles Davis, Andrew Hill and Herbie Hancock, during much of his career. Not before time, he steps up to the mic with Penumbra, leading a trio-plus-percussion ensemble and ...

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Article: Album Review

The Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra

Read "Penumbra" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


For whatever it's worth, Bennie Maupin will continue to be associated with Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, and to an extent with Herbie Hancock and his fusion phase. But times and circumstances have changed, and it is good to see Maupin get into an acoustic setting that draws attention to his playing and his music. It is ...

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Article: Album Review

The Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra

Read "Penumbra" reviewed by John Kelman


Bennie Maupin, whose bass clarinet work helped define Miles Davis' classic Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), was an equally key contributor to Herbie Hancock's 1970s Mwandishi and Headhunters groups. In light of this, it's hard to believe that he has released only six albums as a leader during his lengthy career. One bona fide classic, The Jewel ...

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Article: Album Review

The Bennie Maupin Ensemble: Penumbra

Read "Penumbra" reviewed by Chris May


Always the bridesmaid, rarely the bride, Bennie Maupin has spent most of his career supporting other artists--sometimes as a featured soloist, but more often as a background colourist. Since the mid-1990s he has stood in the shadows more than ever, concentrating on teaching and leading community outreach projects. Penumbra is his first album in eight years. ...

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Tender Moments

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Mode to John; Man from Tanganyika; The High Priest; Utopia; All My Yesterdays; Lee Plus Three.

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Driving While Black

Label: Enja Records
Released: 1998

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Taru

Label: Blue Note
Released: 1980
Track listing: Avotcja One; Haeschen; Dee Lawd; Get Yourself Together (Get Yo

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Slow Traffic To The Right

Label: Enja Records
Released: 1977

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Sorcery

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sorcery, No. 1; The Right Time; The Rock Thing; The Reverend King Suite: Reverend King/Obstructions/The Fatal Shot/Mourning/Unrest/New Spirits on the Horizon; Four Levels of Joy; Epilog.


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