| Notes: | Jazz and jazz-rock.
All compositions written, arranged, and conducted by Herbie Hancock except Quasar and Water torture written by Bennie Maupin.
Originally released as Warner Bros. WS 1834, p1969 (Fat Albert rotunda), WS 1898, p1971 (Mwandishi), and WS 2617, p1972 (Crossings).
Compact discs.
Program notes by Bob Gluck ([32] p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Herbie Hancock, piano, electric piano, Fender Rhodes piano, mellotron, percussion. With, in Fat Albert rotunda: Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone, alto flute ; Joe Farrell, tenor saxophone ; Garnett Brown, trombone ; Johnny Coles, trumpet, flugelhorn ; Joe Newman, trumpet ; Buster Williams, electric and acoustic bass ; Albert "Tootie" Heath, Bernard Purdie, drums ; Eric Gale, guitar. In Mwandishi: the Herbie Hancock Sextet (Herbie Hancock, Fender Rhodes, piano ; Buster Williams, bass ; Billy Hart, drums ; Eddie Henderson, trumpet, flugelhorn; Benny Maupin, bass clarinet, alto flute; Julian Priester, trombones) ; with Leon Chancler, drums, percussion ; Jose "Chepito" Areas, congas, timbales (Ostinato (Suite for Angela)) ; Ronnie Montrose, guitar (Ostinato (Suite for Angela)). In Crossings: Billy Hart, drums, percussion ; Benny Maupin, soprano saxophone, alto flute, bass clarinet, piccolo, percussion ; Eddie Henderson, trumpet, flugelhorn, percussion ; Julian Priester, bass, tenor, and alto trombone, percussion ; with: Patrick Gleason, Moog synthesizer ; Victor Pontoja [i.e. Pantoja], congas ; various vocalists.
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (Fat Albert rotunda); Wally Heider Recording Studios, San Francisco, Calif. (Mwandishi); and Pacific Recording Studios, San Mateo, and Different Fur Trading Company, San Francisco (Crossings).
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