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Bennie Maupin · 1974 · Pièce avec trompette de Charles Sullivan, deux batteries et marimba

Context

Track from The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM, 1974), recorded in March 1974 in New York by a sextet with Herbie Hancock, Buster Williams, Billy Hart and Freddie Waits. Wikipedia describes a mix of spiritual jazz, modal jazz and early-1970s fusion, with airy reeds, marimba and bow; all compositions are by Maupin.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Spiritual jazz, ECM and European jazz, Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk. Among the origins and influences of Spiritual jazz: Modal, Free jazz.

By the same artist

• Ensenada (1974)
• The Jewel in the Lotus (1974)
• Song for Tracie Dixon Summers (1974)

Sources

• EN: The Jewel in the Lotus (album)
• jazz.com

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