Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)

Crossings is the tenth album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in 1972.

Crossings
Studio album by Herbie Hancock
Released	May 1972[1]
Recorded	February 15–17, 1972
Studio	Pacific (San Mateo) Different Fur (San Francisco)
Genre	Avant-garde jazz, jazz fusion
Length	46:21
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	David Rubinson
Herbie Hancock chronology
Mwandishi (1971) Crossings (1972) Sextant (1973)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

It is the second album in his Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in electronics and funk with a sextet featuring saxophonist Bennie Maupin, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, trombonist Julian Priester, bassist Buster Williams and drummer Billy Hart. The album is the band's first to feature synthesizer player Patrick Gleeson, originally hired as a technician to help set up Hancock's Moog synthesizer; Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."^[5]

Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014.

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sleeping Giant"	Herbie Hancock	24:38
Total length:			24:38

Side B

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
2.	"Quasar"	Bennie Maupin	7:27
3.	"Water Torture"	Maupin	14:04
Total length:			21:21

Personnel

• Herbie Hancock – piano, electric piano, mellotron, percussion
• Eddie Henderson – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
• Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion
• Julian Priester – tenor and alto trombones, bass, percussion
• Buster Williams – bass guitar, double bass, percussion
• Billy Hart – drums, percussion

With:

• Patrick Gleeson – Moog synthesizer, Mellotron^[6]
• Victor Pantoja – congas
• Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Beach – voices

References

External videos
Herbie Hancock - Sleeping Giant
Herbie Hancock - Water torture

1. Billboard May 27, 1972
2. Allmusic review
3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. U.S.: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 94. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 642. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Stuart Nicholson's notes for the 2001 Warner Bros. CD reissue.
6. Opperman, Derek (May 27, 2015). "Wearing A Really Different Fur: How Patrick Gleeson introduced the synthesizer to Herbie Hancock and changed jazz in the process". Red Bull Music Academy. Retrieved May 8, 2023.