Herbie Hancock • Crossings

 

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.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/crossings-mw0000454536

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Richard S. Ginell
Con el frenético golpeteo de lo que suena como una relojería enloquecida, Crossings lleva al Herbie Hancock Sextet aún más lejos en la vanguardia eléctrica, creando su propio lenguaje. Ahora, sin embargo, el sexteto se ha convertido en un septeto con la incorporación del Dr. Patrick Gleeson al sintetizador Moog, cuyas decoraciones electrónicas, sin tono o no, dan a la banda un toque aún más espacial. De nuevo, sólo hay tres temas -- la pieza central es la polifacética suite de estructura abierta en cinco partes de Hancock llamada "Sleeping Giant". Con una duración de casi 25 minutos y una cohesión asombrosa, "Sleeping Giant" obtiene gran parte de su fuerza de una serie de ritmos funky -el más potente de los cuales explota al final de la segunda parte- y los solos de piano eléctrico Fender Rhodes de Hancock anticipan sus aventuras funk más adelante en los años 70. Quasar" de Bennie Maupin empuja la sesión hacia territorio extraterrestre, dominado por los salvajes efectos Moog de Gleeson y la trompeta de aire aleteante patentada del trompetista Eddie Henderson. Aún más extraña es "Water Torture" de Maupin, que se pasea libremente con salpicaduras de color del espeluznante Mellotron de Hancock y el piano Fender Rhodes con pedal fuzz-wah, la electrónica de Gleeson y un quinteto de voces. Esta música (que puede escucharse en los dos CD de Mwandishi de Warners), que sigue siendo una experiencia sonora desafiante, aún no ha encontrado su público, aunque los jóvenes aficionados a la electrónica deberían encontrarla deslumbrante.
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Tracks:
1 - Sleeping Giant 24:50
2 - Quasar 7:27
3 - Water Torture 14:04

Credits:
    Bass Trombone, Tenor Trombone, Trombone [Alto Trombone], Percussion – Pepo Mtoto Julian Priester*
    Congas – Victor Pantoja
    Design – Mental Block
    Drums, Percussion – Jabali Billy Hart*
    Electric Bass, Bass, Percussion – Mchezaji Buster Williams*
    Electric Piano, Piano, Mellotron, Percussion – Mwandishi Herbie Hancock*
    Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Fred Catero, Patrick Gleason*
    Liner Notes – Stuart Nicholson
    Mixed By [Remixed By] – David Robinson*, Fred Catero, Jerry Zatkin*
    Painting [Cover Painting] – Robert Springett
    Soprano Saxophone, Alto Flute, Bass Clarinet, Piccolo Flute, Body Percussion – Mwile Benny Maupin*
    Synthesizer [Moog Synthesizer] – Patrick Gleason*
    Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Percussion – Swahile Eddie Henderson*
    Voice – Candy Love, Della Horne, Sandra Stevens, Scott Beach, Victoria Domagalski

Recorded at Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo.

Label:    Warner Bros. Records – BS 2617
Country:    US
Released:    1972
Genre:    Jazz
Style:    Post Bop, Fusion, Jazz-Funk
https://www.discogs.com/release/195833-Herbie-Hancock-Crossings

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