{"id":3274,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/bennie-maupin\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"bennie-maupin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Bennie Maupin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"5\">    <\/p>\n<p\/><\/font><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/benniemaupin.jpg\" alt=\"drgleeson.jpg (3985 bytes)\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" width=\"130\" height=\"129\"\/><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"4\" color=\"#0000FF\"><strong>Bennie Maupin<\/strong><\/font>  <font size=\"3\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:12pt\">    <\/p>\n<p\/><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">Bennie Maupin has had a distinguished jazz and R and  B career both as a reed player (all saxes, piccolo\/flutes, and clarinets) and a composer.<\/font>    <\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">In addition to recording three solo albums of his own on  Polygram and ECM, Bennie has recorded and performed with the most important names in jazz:  among them Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, John McLaughlin, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, and  Horace Silver.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">After playing bass clarinet on Miles Davis&#8217;s landmark  Bitches Brew album, a performance which not incidentally re-introduced this versatile but  neglected instrument to contemporary jazz, Bennie joined Herbie Hancock&#8217;s innovative  Sextet, where for several years he was both a featured soloist and an important  contributor to the band&#8217;s play book, most notably &#8220;Water Torture,&#8221; a composition  since recorded by many other jazz artists and a frequently sampled source for hiphop and  rap. He has appeared on many albums of Herbie&#8217;s, most significantly Headhunters.  Crossings&#8217; and Sextant&#8211;albums now regarded as seminal statements of the best electronic  jazz.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:10pt\">      <\/font><center>      <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/center><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bennie Maupin Bennie Maupin has had a distinguished jazz and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}