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Album Description
Bennie Maupin was one of the first musicians to record for ECM， playing on a Marion Brown record in August 1970， when the label was just a few months old. Born in Detroit in 1940， Maupin was encouraged in his early musical development by Yusef Lateef， John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. Jack DeJohnette introduced him to Miles Davis， and Bennie’s bass clarinet was to become one of the signature sounds of the epochal Bitches Brew. The early 70s， however， were spent mostly working with Herbie Hancock’s ensembles and The Jewel In The Lotus is essentially a pooling of players from the Hancock circle， including Herbie himself in his only ECM appearance. The Jewel In The Lotus was Bennie Maupin’s first leader record. The album was recorded in March 1974， and could be described as a sequence of pulsing tone-poems， full of glowing， compound sound-colors and subtle interactions - a jazz-and-Buddhism-inspired floating chamber music that was way ahead of its time. The recording shows Maupin very much concerned with the totality of the musical conception， with the form as a whole. He is an exceptional improviser， thinking compositionally and directing group music in the moment.