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is the tenth album by jazz pianist, released in 1972. It is the second album in his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in electronics. The album is the band's first to feature new member, synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. He was scheduled to "set up his Moog synthesizer for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group." Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014. The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 5 stars and stated: "With the frenzied knocking of what sounds like a clock shop gone berserk, Crossings takes the Herbie Hancock Sextet even further into the electric avant-garde, creating its own idiom."Side A " Sleeping Giant " (Herbie Hancock) – 24:50 Side B " Quasar " (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27 " Water Torture " (Maupin) – 14:04Herbie Hancock – piano, electric piano, mellotron, percussion Eddie Henderson – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion Julian Priester – tenor and alto trombones, bass, percussion Buster Williams – bass guitar, double bass, percussion Billy Hart – drums, percussion with: Patrick Gleeson – Moog synthesizer Victor Pantoja – congas Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Breach – voices _______________________________________________________________ Released: End of May 1972 Recorded: February 15–17, 1972 Studio: Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo; Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco Length: 46:21 Label: Warner Bros. Producer: David Rubinson

Crossings is the tenth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in 1972. It is the second album in his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in electronics. The album is the band’s first to feature new member, synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. He was scheduled to “set up his Moog synthesizer for Hancock to play.” However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he “asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group.”

Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014.

The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 5 stars and stated: “With the frenzied knocking of what sounds like a clock shop gone berserk, Crossings takes the Herbie Hancock Sextet even further into the electric avant-garde, creating its own idiom.”





Track listing:

Side A

“Sleeping Giant” (Herbie Hancock) – 24:50

Side B

“Quasar” (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27

“Water Torture” (Maupin) – 14:04





Personnel:

Herbie Hancock – piano, electric piano, mellotron, percussion

Eddie Henderson – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion

Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion

Julian Priester – tenor and alto trombones, bass, percussion

Buster Williams – bass guitar, double bass, percussion

Billy Hart – drums, percussion

with:

Patrick Gleeson – Moog synthesizer

Victor Pantoja – congas

Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Breach – voices





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Released: End of May 1972

Recorded: February 15–17, 1972

Studio: Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo; Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco

Length: 46:21

Label: Warner Bros.

Producer: David Rubinson



