Stream Your Event | Partners | Speakers CART ITEMS: - | CHECKOUT

or Log In

(recommended)

Share your favorite videos with friends
Comment on videos and join the conversation
Get personalized recommendations
Enjoy exclusive offers

Purchased a FORA.tv video on another website? Login here with the temporary account credentials included in your receipt.

Username or Email:
Password:
Forgot your password? Keep me logged in

Pay-Per-View
business
environment
politics
science
technology
culture

Preview

Ben Ratliff in Conversation with Bennie Maupin

Watch Full Video | previews

Los Angeles Public Library

Likes

Dislikes

RATE

3,397 Views

Info
Bio
Chapters
Preview
Download
Zoom In

Partner:: Los Angeles Public Library
Location:: Los Angeles Public Library
Los Angeles, CA
Event Date:: 11.12.08
Speakers:: Bennie Maupin,; Ben Ratliff
Tags:

Summary: In his new book, New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff listens to music with jazz greats, drawing them out about what they're listening for and why.

Here he talks with an exceptional musician not in the book: L.A. -based saxophonist Maupin, famous for his role in Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and for his own critically acclaimed albums - Los Angeles Public Library

Bio

Bennie Maupin

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 Corner." He was a founding member of Herbie Hancock's seminal band The Headhunters, as well as a performer and composer in Hancock's influential Mwandishi band. Born in 1940, Maupin started playing clarinet, later adding saxophone, flute and, most notably, the bass clarinet to his arsenal of woodwind instruments. He has freelanced with groups led by Marion Brown, Pharoah Saunders, and Chick Corea, and played regularly with Roy Haynes and Horace Silver. He also recorded with McCoy Tyner, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill, Eddie Henderson, and Woody Shaw to name only a few. Maupinâ€™s own discography as a leader includes The Jewel in The Lotus (1974), Slow Traffic to the Right(1976), Moonscapes(1978), and Driving While Black. (1998). His current group, The Bennie Maupin Ensemble, harkens back to the tradition of great saxophone-bass-drum trios, such as the group led by Sonny Rollins with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones. He maintains active performing and teaching careers in Europe, and the US. Bennie Maupin currently resides in the Los Angeles area.

Ben Ratliff

Ben Ratliff has been a jazz critic at The New York Times since 1996. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and their two sons. His New York Times Essential Library: Jazz was published in 2002. He has written three books: The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music (2008); Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (2007, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings (2002).

Chapters

: Watch Full Program

01 hr 17 min 38 sec

Add to Profile
01.: ALOUD Introduction

02 min 27 sec

Add to Profile
02.: Ratlliff Opening: Introducing Bennie Maupin

04 min 21 sec

Add to Profile
03.: 'It's Only a Paper Moon' (1948) Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins

04 min 37 sec

Add to Profile
04.: Rollins' Squeaky Style

02 min 43 sec

Add to Profile
05.: 'Tenor Madness' (1956) Sonny Rollins with John Coltrane

03 min 53 sec

Add to Profile
06.: Rollins' Maturation / Detroit in the 50s

03 min 46 sec

Add to Profile
07.: Going to High School with Alice Coltrane

04 min 14 sec

Add to Profile
08.: 'Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue' (1956) Duke Ellington

04 min 29 sec

Add to Profile
09.: Maupin Refines His Chops

02 min 59 sec

Add to Profile
10.: Learning from Coltrane / Alvin Jones

05 min 56 sec

Add to Profile
11.: Coltrane's Discipline and Spirituality

03 min 18 sec

Add to Profile
12.: 'Pithecanthropus Erectus' (1956) Charles Mingus / Collective Improvisation

06 min 58 sec

Add to Profile
13.: The Brutality of Mingus

04 min 36 sec

Add to Profile
14.: 'Invisible' (1958) Ornette Coleman

04 min 24 sec

Add to Profile
15.: An Amazing Time for Modern Music

05 min 25 sec

Add to Profile
16.: Q1: Remixing Jazz with Hip-Hop

03 min 59 sec

Add to Profile
17.: Q2: Jazz Music / Business Today

05 min 04 sec

Add to Profile
18.: Bennie Maupin Performance: 'Escondido'

04 min 17 sec

Add to Profile
: Watch Full Program

01 hr 17 min 38 sec

Add to Profile

Bennie Maupin: The Jazz Business Today

04 min 57 sec

Add to Profile

Jazz musician and composer Bennie Maupin believes technology will help bring a new wave of innovative jazz music. Maupin believes that "every generation is supposed to push it a little further."

However, Maupin insists that musicians coming out of music schools are going to have to unlearn what they've been taught to create art.
Watch Full Program

01 hr 17 min 38 sec

Add to Profile