It’s hard to understand why multi-woodwind instrumentalist Bennie Maupin doesn’t have a higher visibility in the jazz world. Yes, he’s known for his gnarly bass clarinet playing on the Miles ...

Miles Davis wasn’t accustomed to people telling him no about anything, says Bennie Maupin, who had played bass clarinet on Davis’s jazz-rock fusion masterpiece Bitches Brew. But when Maupin ...

Benny Maupin's Dolphyana was an homage to Eric Dolphy. The interesting timbres of bass clarinet (Maupin), flute (Nestor Torres), vibes (Jay Hoggard), bass (Darek Oles) and drums (Billy Hart ...

Williams had been introduced to the practice by his sister, and had already inspired Bennie Maupin to explore it. The three of them, Williams, Maupin, and Hancock, became lifelong adherents ...

Bennie Maupin is best-known for his atmospheric bass clarinet playing on Miles Davis' classic Bitches Brew album, as well as other Miles Davis recordings such as Big Fun, Jack Johnson, and On the ...

Bennie Maupin has to be one of the unsung heroes of jazz history. His daring bass clarinet and saxophone solos enhanced numerous recording sessions that have resulted in some indisputably great al ...

Maupin deploys sax, electronics, and chants while Rudolph manipulates an array of hand drums, gongs, and thumb pianos, creating a new lingua franca in the fertile nexus where chamber jazz ...

Tenor saxophonist Bennie Maupin, percussionist Bill Summers, drummer Harvey Mason and Marcus Miller - standing in for late ...

In AllAboutJazz-New York's Best of 2006 spread, three of the four Best Album lists included Bennie Maupin's Penumbra. The disc was his first since 1998's Driving While Black (Intuition), an album few ...

Jazz musician Bennie Maupin. (Ewelina Kowal, provided by Bennie Maupin) Options at Dazzle Bennie Maupin has to be one of the unsung heroes of jazz history. His daring bass clarinet and saxophone ...