Jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s 1975 report Montara is the newest album to affix Blue Observe’s Tone Poet reissue collection. The brand new version of the report is on the market for preorder now.
Recorded at Los Angeles’ The File Plant over two day-long periods in 1975, Montara noticed Hutcherson tackle covers of traditional tracks like Tito Puente’s “Oye Como Va” and Eddie Martinez’s “Little Angel”—it additionally featured Hutcherson originals like “Yuyo” and the title monitor.
Becoming a member of Hutcherson within the studio had been the likes of Pias Johnson (flute); Oscar Brashear and Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Ernie Watts and Fred Jackson, Jr. (tenor saxophone); Eddie Cano (piano); Dennis Budimir (guitar); Chuck Domanico and Dave Troncoso (bass); and Harvey Mason (drums). Preparations for the group had been supplied by Dale Oehler. Montara marked one in every of two Blue Observe releases from Hutcherson in 1975—it was preceded by the studio album Linger Lane.
Launched in 2019, the Blue Observe Tone Poet Sequence options jazz classics produced by the “Tone Poet” himself, Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Grey of Cohearent Audio, and compiled on 180-gram vinyl. Every title within the collection is handpicked from Blue Observe’s intensive again catalog, which dates again to 1939. The collection additionally encompasses releases from labels underneath Blue Observe’s umbrella, together with Pacific Jazz, United Artists, and Stable State.
Hutcherson’s Montara joins releases from the likes of Wayne Shorter, Stanley Turrentine, Duke Ellington, and Chet Baker. It’s additionally not the primary Hutcherson album to affix the gathering—the Tone Poet Sequence has beforehand reissued a number of of his LPs together with Indirect, The Kicker, and Dialogue, all of which seize uncommon periods Hutcherson recorded throughout the Nineteen Sixties.
Store Bobby Hutcherson’s music on vinyl now.
