HERBIE HANCOCK "Crossings" 12 Inch Vinyl Stereo LP 33RPM GATEFOLD PROMO VG+
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$ 19
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Sep 18, 2017
Sold Date
Sep 11, 2017
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$ 8
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Description
Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieve success among pop audiences.
Crossings
1972 Warner Bros. Records BS 2617 Promo
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. Notably, the album is the band's first to feature their new member - synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson. He was originally only scheduled to "set up his Moog synthesiser for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleason[sic] not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."
AllMusic Review by Richard S. Ginell
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. Now, however, the sextet has become a septet with the addition of Dr. Patrick Gleeson on Moog synthesizer, whose electronic decorations, pitchless and not, give the band an even spacier edge. Again, there are only three tracks -- the centerpiece being Hancock's multi-faceted, open-structured suite in five parts called "Sleeping Giant." Nearly 25 minutes long yet amazingly cohesive, "Sleeping Giant" gathers a lot of its strength from a series of funky grooves -- the most potent of which explodes at the tail-end of Part Two -- and Hancock's on-edge Fender Rhodes electric piano solos anticipate his funk adventures later in the '70s. Bennie Maupin's "Quasar" pushes the session into extraterrestrial territory, dominated by Gleeson's wild Moog effects and trumpeter Eddie Henderson's patented fluttering air trumpet. Even stranger is Maupin's "Water Torture," which saunters along freely with splashes of color from Hancock's spooky Mellotron and fuzz-wah-pedaled Fender Rhodes piano, Gleeson's electronics, and a quintet of voices. Still a challenging sonic experience, this music (which can be heard on Warners' Mwandishi two-CD set) has yet to find its audience, though the electronica-minded youth ought to find it dazzling.
Tracks A Sleeping Giant 24:50 B1 Quasar 7:27 B2 Water Torture 14:04
Credits
- Bass, Percussion – Buster Williams
- Congas – Victor Pontoja*
- Drums, Percussion – Billy Hart
- Electric Piano, Mellotron, Piano, Percussion – Herbie Hancock
- Engineer [Recording] – Fred Catero, Patrick Gleason*
- Soprano Saxophone, Flute [Alto], Bass Clarinet, Percussion, Piccolo Flute – Bennie Maupin
- Synthesizer [Moog] – Patrick Gleason*
- Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion – Eddie Henderson
- Voice – Candy Love, Della Horne, Sandra Stevens, Scott Beach, Victoria Domagalski
Condition:
VG + = Very Good . Vinyl has a few surface scuffs and/or very minor scratches (but no ‘feeler’ scratches). Label shows some evidence of wear, no writing. Jacket has some seam splits and 1-2 small hairline creases and/or minor chipping at edges or bumped corners, some ring wear, no writing, no liquid stains.
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