Bobby Hutcherson Biography, Bobby Hutcherson Videos, Bobby Hutcherson Similar artist, Bobby Hutcherson Discography, Bobby Hutcherson Tags

You are in : HOME : B : Bobby Hutcherson :

Throwback Thursday: Jib & Sail

"One day, music will take its rightful place as the true religion of Mankind." - Inayat Khan Throwba

Bobby Hutcherson - Medina

This is my favorite jazz recording. Actually, it was originally two separate sessions: the CD reissu

Jazz Recordings That Are Out Of Print But Shouldn't Be, Part 1

Air - Air Lore Ornette Coleman - Crisis John Coltrane - Infinity Stanley Cowell - Equipoise Bobby Hu

National Endowment for the Arts 2010 Jazz Masters

Just received this Press Release in my inbox... For immediate release: MAY 21, 2009 NATIONAL ENDOWM

Harold Land - Choma (Burn)

Harold Land is one of my favorite tenor sax players, and really one of my favorite musicians, period

Biography Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson (born January 27, 1941 in Los Angeles) is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern. Hutcherson has influenced younger vibraphonists like Steve Nelson, Monte Croft, Joe Locke and Stefon Harris. Attracted foremost to more experimental free jazz and post-bop, Hutcherson made early recordings in this style for the Blue Note label with Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Grachan Moncur III, Joe Chambers, and Freddie Hubbard, both as a leader and a sideman. In spite of the numerous avant-garde recordings made during this period however, Hutcherson's first session for Blue Note, the Kicker (1963) (not released until 1999), demonstrates his background in hard bop and the blues, as well as the early session Idle Moments for Grant Green, for example. Many of his later recordi