MAUPIN,BENNIE
JEWEL IN THE LOTUS (ECM LUMINESSENCE SERIES) - LP

UPC: 602458923667
Label: ECM RECORDS
Format: LP
Release Date: May 16, 2025
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Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records, including Miles Davis's Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancock's Mwandishiand Headhunters, and Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun. His recordings under his own name have been infrequent but his leader debut, is indeed a jewel. "A more selfless album is hard to imagine," said DownBeat in 1975. "On The Jewel in the Lotus, the sound is supreme, and all the players strive to achieve a thorough blending."

Recorded in New York in 1974, it is a long overdue addition to the ECM Luminessence Series.

TRACK LIST:

Side I:

1. Ensenada
2. Mappo
3. Excursion
4. Past + Present = Future

Side II:

1. The Jewel in the Lotus
2. Winds of Change
3. Song for Tracie Dixon Summers
4. Past Is Past