Bobby Hutcherson's Enjoy the View has now got a UK release date of 30 June, this new quartet album a bit of a surprise appearance on Blue Note by the 73-year-old vibes great, a quartet album with Hutcherson joined by David Sanborn (several of whose Warner albums have just been reissued), Hammond organ lion Joey DeFrancesco who has contributed some songs to the album, and drummer Billy Hart whose One is the Other, another quartet album, was a triumph recently. Hutcherson hasn't made an album for Blue Note since the 1970s (Knucklebean was the last one in 1977) and he's the latest label veteran to return to the fold following Wayne Shorter's example. With more than 40 albums to Hutcherson's name as a leader of co-leader the LA-born vibist began making records as a leader for Pacific at the dawn of the 1960s and was later, in New York, part of the New Thing with Jackie McLean and Eric Dolphy. He appears on the Dolphy classic Out To Lunch and recorded extensively for Blue Note before changing direction with records of his own such as Head On. His funkier side, with albums such as San Francisco high among them, still stand up well today. Since the 1980s Hutcherson has returned to a more straightahead style with well received albums recorded for instance at the much missed Keystone Korner club and in duo with McCoy Tyner as well as extensive work with the San Francisco Jazz Collective.
Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Hutcherson, David Sanborn, and Billy Hart.
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