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The Jewel in the Lotus (album)

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Released
  
1974

Length
  
44:17

Release date
  
1974

Label
  
ECM Records

Recorded
  
1974

Artist
  
Bennie Maupin

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

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The Jewel in the Lotus (1974)
  
Slow Traffic to the Right (1977)

Jazz albums
  
Mwandishi, Afternoon of a Geor, Drum Ode, Sextant, Red Lanta

The Jewel in the Lotus is the debut album by jazz woodwind player Bennie Maupin, recorded and released in 1974. In 2011, Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer used samples of The Jewel in the Lotus as the basis for the track "Rensenada" on the remix album Re:ECM.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Ensenada" – 8:15
  2. "Mappo" – 8:30
  3. "Excursion – 4:52
  4. "Past + Present = Future" - 1:52
  5. "The Jewel in the Lotus" - 10:02
  6. "Winds of Change" - 1:30
  7. "Song for Tracie Dixon Summers" - 5:19
  8. "Past Is Past" - 3:57
All compositions by Bennie Maupin
  • Recorded at the Record Plant, New York City in March, 1974

    • Personnel

  • Bennie Maupin - saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, voice, glockenspiel
  • Herbie Hancock - acoustic and electric pianos
  • Buster Williams - bass
  • Billy Hart - drums (right channel)
  • Freddie Waits - drums, marimba (left channel)
  • Bill Summers - percussion
  • Charles Sullivan - trumpet on "Mappo" and "Excursion"

    • Songs

    1Ensenada8:05
    2Mappo8:25
    3Excursion4:47

    References

    The Jewel in the Lotus (album) Wikipedia
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