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Bobby Hutcherson - Components


Label:

Blue Note

Genre:

Jazz

Product No.:
ABLU 73225
UPC: 602547173225
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Vinyl Record




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A Blue Note essential, Components is part of the Blue Note 75 anniversary vinyl reissue campaign, featuring 100 titles and key to the initiative is high-quality audio at affordable prices.

Perhaps the single album that best sums up Bobby Hutcherson's early musical personality, Components is appropriately split into two very distinct halves. The first features four Hutcherson originals in a melodic but still advanced hard bop style, while the latter half has four free-leaning avant-garde pieces by drummer Joe Chambers. Hutcherson allots himself more solo space than on Dialogue, but that's no knock on the excellent supporting cast, which includes Herbie Hancock on piano, James Spaulding on alto sax and flute, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, and Ron Carter on bass. It's just more Hutcherson's date, and he helps unite the disparate halves with a cool-toned control that's apparent regardless of whether the material is way outside or more conventionally swinging.

In the latter case, Hutcherson's originals are fairly diverse, encompassing rhythmically complex hard bop (the title track), pensive balladry ("Tranquillity," which features a lovely solo by Hancock), down-and-dirty swing ("West 22nd Street Theme"), and the gaily innocent "Little B's Poem," which went on to become one of Hutcherson's signature tunes and contains some lyrical flute work from Spaulding.

Musicians:
Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphone
Herbie Hancock, piano
James Spaulding, alto sax and flute
Freddie Hubbard, trumpet
Ron Carter, bass



Side 1
1. Components
2. Tranquility
3. Little B’s Poem
4. West 22nd Street Theme

Side 2
5. Movement
6. Juba Dance
7. Air
8. Pastrol

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