Bennie Maupin has been an inventive contributor to iconic records including Miles Daviss Bitches Brew, Herbie Hancocks Mwandishi and Headhunters and Marion Browns Afternoon Of A Georgia Faun. His recordings under his own name have been infrequent but his leader debut, is indeed a jewel. A more selfless album is hard to imagine, said Down Beat in 1975. On The Jewel In The Lotus, the sound is supreme, and all the players strive to achieve a thorough blending. Recorded in New York in 1974, the discs personnel is drawn from the circle around Herbie Hancock in the period, but the music has a character all its own.