{"id":6602,"date":"2016-08-16T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6602"},"modified":"2016-08-16T12:36:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T17:36:28","slug":"bobby-hutcherson-1941-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=6602","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Hutcherson 1941 – 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download – Bobby Hutcherson feat. Harold Land – Ummh MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Listen\/Download – Bobby Hutcherson feat. Harold Land – Goin’ Down South MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I woke up this morning to the extremely sad news that one of my musical heroes, the mighty vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson<\/strong> had passed away.<\/a><\/p>\n

I have been a jazz fan my entire life, but there was a period in the late 80s and early 90s, in the years right after I stopped playing in bands and decided to spend my time intently listening<\/em>, that I bought, studied and listened to almost nothing but jazz.<\/p>\n

Though I was digging everything from Bix Beiderbecke<\/strong> to Archie Shepp<\/strong>, the broadest area of my focus was applied to the post-bop\/modal\/out years from the late 50s to the early 70s, and in large part to the sounds of the Blue Note label.<\/p>\n

At the time, Blue Note was engaged in an aggressive CD reissue campaign, part of which was the Connoisseur Series, in which they pressed up some of the more obscure, challenging and interesting titles from their back catalog in limited quantities. I picked up the discs in that series religiously, as well as anything else I could find that I dug, sometimes to the tune of three or four albums a week.<\/p>\n

It was during that time that I discovered and fell in love with the music of Bobby Hutcherson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you come here on the reg, or dig the podcast, you know that I am a certified vibes nut, and Hutcherson was a master of the instrument (as well as the xylophone and marimba) who played in a wide variety of settings as a leader and a sideman, and in styles ranging from bebop, to modal, to inside\/outside to free jazz with just about every great musician associated with Blue Note.<\/p>\n

Head on over to Discogs and take a look as his own catalog, as well as his work as a sideman.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was lucky enough to see him play (and meet him briefly) back in the 90s when he played in New York City.<\/p>\n

The tracks I bring you today are from the funkiest date he did, 1971\u2019s \u2018San Francisco\u2019, recorded with the giant of the tenor saxophone, Harold Land.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Land, who had been working steadily since the late 40s, and had been a crucial member of the Clifford Brown\/Max Roach<\/strong> band, formed a partnership with Hutcherson in the late 60s, with the pair recording a number of albums (trading the leader\u2019s position) over the next decade for a variety of labels.<\/p>\n

\u2018San Francisco\u2019 was a west coast date, featuring Joe Sample<\/strong> (of the Crusaders<\/strong>) on electric and acoustic piano (he also wrote \u2018Goin\u2019 Down South\u2019), \u00a0Hutcherson and Land stretching out on some more groove-oriented material, and great production by Duke Pearson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard \u2018Ummh\u2019 and \u2018Goin\u2019 Down South\u2019 in mixes here at Funky16Corners<\/strong>, but neither has been featured on the blog.<\/p>\n

Both tunes have been sampled, \u2018Goin\u2019 Down South\u2019 by Us3<\/strong> and \u2018Ummh\u2019 by Ice Cube.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m also re-posting below, an all-vibes mix I put together in 2010 called ‘Positive Vibrations’<\/strong>, which features Hutcherson, as well as a number of his contemporaries from the 60s and 70s laying down funky and soulful vibes.<\/p>\n


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Funky16Corners Radio v.79 – Positive Vibrations!
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Lionel Hampton \u2013 Greasy Greens (Glad Hamp)
\nJack Wilson feat Roy Ayers \u2013 Sidewinder (Vault)
\nFreddie McCoy \u2013 Peas and Rice (Prestige)
\nJack Brokensha and the Baroqe-a-delics \u2013 Boogaloo (Contrast)
\nBobby Hutcherson \u2013 Goin\u2019 Down South (Blue Note)
\nCal Tjader \u2013 Ode to Billie Joe (Skye)
\nUlysses Crockett \u2013 Sunshine Superman (Transverse)
\nGary Burton \u2013 Leroy the Magician (Atlantic)
\nMilt Jackson \u2013 People Make the World Go Round (CTI)
\nBobby Christian \u2013 Mooganga (Ovation)
\nJohnny Lytle \u2013 Above the Clouds (SS)
\nLionel Hampton- Them Changes (Brunswick)
\nFreddie McCoy \u2013 Beans\u2019n\u2019Greens (Prestige)
\nSoulful Strings feat Billy Wooten \u2013 One Night Affair (Cadet)
\nCal Tjader \u2013 Soul Sauce (Verve)<\/strong><\/div>\n

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If you get the chance, look for any of Hutcherson’s Blue Note albums, but especially \u2018Patterns\u2019, which was recorded in 1968 but shelved (inexplicably) until the 80s. It is by far my favorite Hutcherson album, and featured the underrated\/underrecorded reedman James Spaulding<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n

Hutcherson was a giant, and he will be missed.<\/p>\n

See you all on Friday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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