Crossings (Herbie Hancock album)

Crossings is the tenth studio album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in May 1972 on Warner Bros. Records.

ReleasedMay 1972^[1]

RecordedFebruary 15–17, 1972

Studio

• Pacific (San Mateo)
• Different Fur (San Francisco)

GenreAvant-garde jazz, jazz fusion

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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)

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Allmusic	[2]
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]

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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."^[6]

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.