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Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch! - 45 rpm Reissue
by Matt Marshall
Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch! Blue Note / Music Matters 2009 (1964)
Few jazz fans still need an introduction to reed player Eric Dolphy's 1964 masterpiece, Out to Lunch!. It's an album people tend to come to fairly early on in their love affair with the music (assuming, that is, the affair started after the early 1960s), and serves as a meeting ground for a wide scope of fans, be they stalwarts of bop, ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: Head On
by Chris May
A brilliant addition to Blue Note's Connoisseur series, Head On not only resuscitates vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's fascinating but obscure 1971 album of the same name, it also--with 43 minutes of previously unissued material--reveals another album altogether, made during the second half of the same three-day session, of the same high quality but with a markedly different feel.
Both albums feature Hutcherson's regular quintet of the time--with tenor saxophonist Harold Land and trumpeter Oscar Brashear--augmented by horns and percussion ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by Jerry D'Souza
Bobby Hutcherson says that he always wanted to record an album of ballads and love songs. That dream has been realized with this recording, which he calls his love record. It comes across as more; it is a love-in for the listener as well.
Hutcherson is a player who makes every note count, whose every touch of the mallet makes the vibraphone sing. His instinct makes the music glow as he fills it with his fervent passion without letting the ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by Mark Corroto
How easy is it to fall for this gentle recording of ballads and love songs? Vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson chooses cherished songs from his youth to deliver one gorgeous session of music.
The jazz faithful know many sides of Hutcherson. There's the Blue Note sideman of the 1960s sprinting with the hard bop young lions Hank Mobley, Grant Green and Freddie Hubbard. Then there is the “new Thing maverick, accompanying Andrew Hill, Eric Dolphy and Jackie McLean. There are ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: For Sentimental Reasons
by AAJ Italy Staff
Dopo l’eccellente disco di Pablo Ziegler, Tango & All That Jazz la etichetta Kind of Blue si impone ancora una volta con un’altra proposta di altissimo livello. Ne è protagonista il magnifico vibrafonista Bobby Hutcherson: un classico vivente del jazz moderno; un maestro indiscusso del proprio strumento; un modello di sapienza tecnica, da guardare come fonte di apprendimento per la squisita musicalità dispiegata anche in questa occasione. Undici sono gli standard per giganteggiare ancora a sessantacinque anni con un talento ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: Mosaic Select 26
by Joel Roberts
The 1970s are often disparaged as an era dominated by fusion and disco, which is largely true. But there was also some excellent, innovative jazz being made. Unfortunately, owing to the commercial realities of the day--and many subsequent days--some of the best '70s jazz has remained unreleased or available only to the most intrepid of fans. Case in point: Bobby Hutcherson's mid-1970s output for Blue Note, much of which has never been issued on CD in the ...
Continue ReadingBobby Hutcherson: Mosaic Select 26
by John Kelman
Among the relatively small community of vibraphonists, Bobby Hutcherson is not only one of the most influential, he's clearly the most widely versed and consistent too. In a career now nearing its sixth decade, Hutcherson has played mainstream to Third Stream and soul jazz to free jazz. A mainstay of the Blue Note label in the 1960s and 1970s, he released ten discs as a leader between 1965 and 1969, and also played on albums by artists including Eric Dolphy, ...
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