The Jewel in the Lotus (album)

The Jewel in the Lotus
Studio album by Bennie Maupin
Released	1974
Recorded	1974
Genre	Jazz-fusion, Jazz
Length	44:17
Label	ECM
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Bennie Maupin chronology
The Jewel in the Lotus (1974) Slow Traffic to the Right (1977)

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The Jewel in the Lotus is the debut album by jazz woodwind player Bennie Maupin, recorded and released in 1974. In 2011, Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer used samples of The Jewel in the Lotus as the basis for the track "Rensenada" on the remix album Re:ECM.

Track listing

1. "Ensenada" – 8:15
2. "Mappo" – 8:30
3. "Excursion – 4:52
4. "Past + Present = Future" - 1:52
5. "The Jewel in the Lotus" - 10:02
6. "Winds of Change" - 1:30
7. "Song for Tracie Dixon Summers" - 5:19
8. "Past Is Past" - 3:57

All compositions by Bennie Maupin

• Recorded at the Record Plant, New York City in March, 1974

Personnel

• Bennie Maupin - saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, voice, glockenspiel
• Herbie Hancock - acoustic and electric pianos
• Buster Williams - bass
• Billy Hart - drums (right channel)
• Freddie Waits - drums, marimba (left channel)
• Bill Summers - percussion
• Charles Sullivan - trumpet on "Mappo" and "Excursion"

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