Crossings is the tenth album by
jazz pianist
Herbie Hancock, released in 1972. It is the second album in his
Mwandishi period, which saw him experimenting in
electronics and
funk with a sextet featuring saxophonist
Bennie Maupin, trumpeter
Eddie Henderson, trombonist
Julian Priester, bassist
Buster Williams and drummer
Billy Hart. The album is the band's first to feature
synthesizer player
Patrick Gleeson. He was scheduled to "set up his Moog for Hancock to play." However, Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."[5]
Crossings, along with Fat Albert Rotunda and Mwandishi, was reissued in one set as Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings in 1994 and as The Warner Bros. Years (1969-1972) in 2014.