Crossings is the tenth studio album by jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, released in May 1972 on Warner Bros. Records.
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, originally hired as a technician to help set up Hancock's Moog synthesizer; Hancock was so impressed with Gleeson that he "asked Gleeson not only to do the overdubs on the album but join the group."
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.
Personnel
Herbie Hancock – piano, Rhodes piano, Mellotron, percussion
Eddie Henderson – trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion
Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion
Julian Priester – trombone, alto trombone, bass, percussion
Buster Williams – bass guitar, double bass, percussion
Billy Hart – drums, percussion
With:
Patrick Gleeson – Moog synthesizer, Mellotron
Victor Pantoja – congas
Candy Love, Sandra Stevens, Della Horne, Victoria Domagalski, Scott Beach – voices