EDUCATION | EXHIBITIONS: ONE LP@DOCUMENTING JAZZ_2020: Buster Williams: Musician

{quote}This album is special because of one thing - the time. This is during the time that Bennie Maupin and I were with Herbie Hancock and his Sextet and the music was evolving nightly and so when we did this CD – in those days it wasn’t a CD, it was an album, an LP – with Bennie who we finally called Mwile. That’s his Swahili name.Mwile. The music was an expression of the daringness that was happening in our lives and the way the music was controlling us rather than us controlling the music and we were willing servants to the music. This album was done with no rehearsal. We went in the studio, we had sketches of things, and the blending, the richness of the colours and the blending of the harmonies was just amazing and to this day I haven’t heard anything that warms me more than this.{quote}Buster Williams: Birdland, New York City, 2nd May 2013Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in The Lotus released 1974Buster Williams
Buster Williams: Musician, Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in The Lotus

 

"This album is special because of one thing - the time.  

This is during the time that Bennie Maupin and I were with Herbie Hancock and his Sextet and the music was evolving nightly and so when we did this CD – in those days it wasn’t a CD, it was an album, an LP – with Bennie who we finally called Mwile. That’s his Swahili name. 

Mwile. The music was an expression of the daringness that was happening in our lives and the way the music was controlling us rather than us controlling the music and we were willing servants to the music.  

This album was done with no rehearsal.  

We went in the studio, we had sketches of things, and the blending, the richness of the colours and the blending of the harmonies was just amazing and to this day I haven’t heard anything that warms me more than this." 

Buster Williams: Birdland, New York City, 2nd May 2013 

Bennie Maupin: The Jewel in The Lotus released 1974 

Buster Williams