Bobby Hutcherson – Montara (1975) ✔

Bobby Hutcherson – Montara (1975) ✔

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Bobby Hutcherson – Montara (1975)

One of Hutcherson’s most famous associations was with the extraordinary alto saxophonist Freddie Hubbard. As a teenager, Hutcherson and fellow New York musician Ronnie Mathews (bass) and drummer Al Foster introduced Hubbard to the concepts of electric jazz with their improvising at the Club 1061 on Bleecker Street in New York City. From 1958 to 1959 Hutcherson, Hubbard and guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded two remarkable albums at Prestige. In 1959, the trio released Introducing Freddie Hubbard and a few months later stepped up to Blue Note. After graduating from High School Hutcherson joined the Navy and played intermittently with Hubbard during his two years of military service. Upon his discharge, Freddie Hubbard and the Stanley Turrentine Trio appeared at the Blue Note Jazz Festival in 1958. Hubbard and the Trio made many more recordings for Blue Note, and later went on to record for Columbia, Muse, Candid and Konnex. In 1973 Hutcherson joined Hubbard and his brothers Lewis and Roland on their last album for Blue Note, the top selling Back at the Chicken Shack. In 1973, Hutcherson moved to Los Angeles, joining Blue Note as a pianist. The first album he produced as a leader, Bobby Hutcherson’s Jazztet, featured an exceptionally talented group. Since then, Hutcherson has recorded with such artists as Chico Hamilton, Art Farmer, Ron Carter, Jackie McLean, Joey DeFrancesco, Cecil McBee, Woody Shaw, Mark Turner, and Bob Maize. Hutcherson is a successful sideman whose body of recorded work includes eight albums for Blue Note. As a leader, he has released 29 albums, and has performed with an impressive array of musicians at all levels of his career, from Art Farmer and Jackie McLean to Chick Corea and Joe Zawinul. Hutcherson has recorded as a sideman with Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Gary Burton, Gil Evans, Art Farmer, Gil Evans, Roland Kirk, Curtis Salgado, Mel Torme, Wouter Kellermann, Roland Kirk, Reggie Workman, Tony Scott, Steve Khan, Billy Cobham, and Ken Thompson. Blue Note released Blue Note and the West Coast, Vol. 1 in 1982, an album which included the stimulating solo performances by pianists McCoy Tyner and McCoy Tyner Jr. Hutcherson has a broad and deep repertoire, ranging from the blues to ballads, and from funky soul to the avant-garde. Hutcherson’s 1983 album, on which he played all instruments, Ferryboat was critically acclaimed. Hutcherson has worked with drummers Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, Al Foster, Jimmy Cobb, and Eddie Marshall.