Bennie Maupin


Bennie Maupin is a jazz multireedist who performs on various saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet.
He is known for his participation in Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi sextet and Headhunters band, and for performing on Miles Davis's seminal fusion record, Bitches Brew. Maupin has collaborated with Horace Silver, Roy Haynes, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan and many others. He has performed on several Meat Beat Manifesto albums. He is noted for having a harmonically-advanced, "out" improvisation style, while having a different sense of melodic direction than other "out" jazz musicians such as Eric Dolphy.
Maupin was a member of Almanac, a group with Cecil McBee, Mike Nock and Eddie Marshall.
in 1974. Maupin is on the right, holding a bass clarinet

Discography

As leader

With John Beasley
With Marion Brown
With George Cables
With Mike Clark
With Miles Davis
With Jack DeJohnette
With Patrick Gleeson and Jim Lang
With Herbie Hancock
With The Headhunters
With Eddie Henderson
With Andrew Hill
With Lee Morgan
With Darek Oleszkiewicz
With the Jimmy Owens-Kenny Barron Quintet
With Woody Shaw
With Horace Silver
With Lonnie Smith
With McCoy Tyner
With Lenny White