Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)

Crossings
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	End of May 1972[1]
Recorded	February 1972 Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo Moog and mellotron at Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, jazz fusion
Length	46:21
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
Mwandishi (1970) Crossings (1972) Sextant (1973)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]

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."^[4]

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

Track listing

Original LP

Side A

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

Side B

1. "Quasar" (Bennie Maupin) – 7:27
2. "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

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