Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)

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Released End of May 1972 Crossings (1972) Sextant (1973) Release date 1972 Label Warner Bros. Records		Length 46:21 Artist Herbie Hancock Producer David Rubinson

Recorded February 1972 Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo Moog and mellotron at Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco Genres Jazz, Jazz fusion, Avant-garde jazz Similar Herbie Hancock albums, Jazz albums

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."

Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994.

Herbie hancock sleeping giant

Side A

"Sleeping Giant" (Herbie Hancock) – 24:50

Side B

"Quasar" (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27
"Water Torture" (Maupin) – 14:04

Personnel

Herbie Hancock - acoustic piano, electric piano, mellotron, percussion

Eddie Henderson - trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion

Billy Hart - drums, percussion

Julian Priester - bass, tenor and alto trombones; percussion

Buster Williams - electric bass, string bass, percussion

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

With:

Patrick Gleeson - Moog synthesizer

Victor Pontoja - congas

Voices - Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Breach

Songs

1Sleeping Giant24:49
2Quasar7:25
3Water Torture13:54

References

Crossings (Herbie Hancock album) Wikipedia

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