Bennie Maupin - The Jewel in the Lotus
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Artist: Bennie MaupinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Music Label: Ecm Records
Soundtracks:
- Ensenada
- Mappo
- Excursion
- Past & Present = Future
- The Jewel In the Lotus
- Winds Of Change
- Song For Tracie Dixon Summers
- Past Is Past
Free Music Notes for The Jewel in the Lotus
Free Music Review: The Rapture is here!
Hit: 5 Stars
The Rapture is here and those who look back will turn to stone (metaphorically speaking, of course)! This music is ravishing and revelatory. However, contrary to the suggestive title and another reviewer's comments below, I do not think it meditative in the Zen-like sense of the word. This is NOT quiet, relaxing, contemplative music. If you're looking for meditative music, look no further than Tony Scott's "Music for Zen Meditation" (Verve, 1964). Act 2, "Mappo", reminds this reviewer of jazz flautist Herbert Laws' powerful interpretation of Igor Stravinky's masterpiece "Rite of Spring" (CTI, 1971) in its intensity and fervor.
Traveling from one glorious passage to another, the listener can construct his or her own meaning and story line from hauntingly beautiful notes. My story came from the book of Genesis~ the creation, the Garden of Eden, Satan's temptation, Adam & Eve's fall from grace, Noah's call of purpose from God, the construction of Noah's ark, the "march" of the animals, the chaos of the deluge, the morning after the flood, and the dove's flight over receding water to dry land and back. Dante Alighieri's literary masterpiece also comes to mind. However you "mine" this music and whatever your story, it is bound to be rich.
"The Jewel in the Lotus" (ECM 1974) is a gem (No pun intended!) among a multitude of experimental efforts in 70s jazz. Recorded a year after Herbie Handcock's "Head Hunters" (Columbia/Legacy 1973) and retaining many of the same musicians, it sounds nothing like its predecessor save for the fact that both break the boundaries of the background lounge music that popular "jazz" had become by the late 60s. The edge and energy is paralleled in few other contemporaneous recordings. All members graciously contribute their best but it is Buster Williams' bass that drives Bennie Maupins' brilliant compositions. Act 3, "Excursion", echoes bassist Charles Mingus' "Let My Children Hear Music" (Columbia/Legacy 1971). In fact, after listening to both "The Jewel..." and "Let My Children...", listeners can find many comparisons. Though there is no historical commentary of which I'm aware that links Bennie Maupin's band with that of Charles Mingus' orchestra, these musicians could not have been ignorant of this sage's later day masterpiece (See my review).
This CD was reissued by ECM in 2007 but sounds as vital and contemporary today as it did when first recorded and should be considered a "classic" from the 70s decade. This is ART for the ears!
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