electric byrd is an awesome record, guys
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 15:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I repeat, electric byrd is an awesome record, also, "the dude" is the fuckin' jam. Pretty much the best track ever for doing the morning stretch dance, you know, how you do the whole crick the neck and rub your hands and work your elbows like you just got up in the morning and have a lot of serious swaggering to do that day, but be funky about the process.
― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 October 2008 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome spaced out sounds all around this one
― river, Thursday, 19 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link
uh talking about Electric Byrd
I'm seeing bobby hutcherson Saturday
― river, Thursday, 19 January 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
dexter wansel belongs in this conversation. manzel too.
― san lazaro, Thursday, 19 January 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
amazing videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-4NTZSkzAE
― tylerw, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
All about this tune todayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK3nYwxO9q8
― man alive, Thursday, 1 January 2015 03:42 (nine years ago) link
surprised this is the only Bobby Hutcherson thread, but RIP ... one of the greatshttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/arts/music/bobby-hutcherson-dies-jazz.html?_r=0
― tylerw, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
gave out to lunch a listen for the first time in a while last week and his playing on that is so cool.
― bagging area (map), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Also love his first (released) Blue Note alb as leader, Dialogue - one of the three or four most 'out' Blue Note discs for def, and what a line-up - Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Dialogue is great!
RIP
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
damn, RIP. saw him live a few years ago on his birthday and it was excellent even though he had slowed down a lot. great band, had another vibe player that was a total shredder. i swear they did a cover of the jan hammer/jeff beck song "blue wind".
― brimstead, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:03 (seven years ago) link
24hr memorial broadcast right now on WKCR:https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/bobby-hutcherson-memorial-broadcast
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 00:45 (seven years ago) link
he had a ridiculous amount of great albums from 66-72
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJLQAYWD_55/
He was such a positive and creative force. Always challenging himself to the very end, his last album Enjoy the View has the feel of one of his classic Blue Note albums from the late 60's. Just a huge personality that emanated good feelings.
― Austin, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
jammed san francisco three times yesterday -- such an excellent LP, occasionally leaning in the CTI soul funk direction, but never getting too syrupy, and plenty of really edgy playing.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:28 (seven years ago) link
I think, when it's all said and done, San Francisco may just be my favorite album of his. But, holy hell, what a ridiculously difficult choice.
― Austin, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Head On has always been my favorite, but then I just listened to San Francisco for the very first time yesterday. Damn, why did I not know that album?
― great Canadian prog-psych debut from 1969 (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:08 (seven years ago) link
Head On is great, a little artier/more challenging ... iirc the bonus tracks on the CD reissue are pretty fantastic too.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
Thanks to bargain bins, I’ve spent more time with Hutcherson’s supposedly lesser albums, and there’s a lot to love!
'Knuckle Bean,' 'Highway One' and 'Solo/Quartet' are all really cool listens.
The A-Side of ‘Solo/Quartet’ is Hutcherson alone playing vibes, marimba and other percussion via overdubbing. It’s spacey, sort of ambient and almost gives me the same kind of vibe as the Japanese “environmental music” that’s all the rage these days. I love the track 'Gotcha': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAJqCPDVePU
― cooldix, Monday, 23 March 2020 06:34 (four years ago) link
great find
― budo jeru, Monday, 23 March 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link
man, been on a bobby hutcherson kick again lately and was going to post one of the solo tracks myself! that single side of that album is just unbelievable. it's not on any streaming service in full! that stuff feels like "loop station" jams two decades before that was even possible. such a unique thing, i would have been over the moon with a full album of material like that. as it stands, it's just a completely amazing anomaly in his catalogue.
going for my second listen of the day on harold land's the peace-maker from 1968. one of the lesser-discussed projects in their series of collaborations and holy hell, what a masterpiece. harold is at his coltrane-inspired best, writing all but one of the tunes. he really blacks out on the opening title track. there's an uncredited (afaict) harmonica (!!) performance on "stylin`" and the mighty buster williams is on bass throughout. such a gem of an album, i can't believe that it's still never received a proper u.s. reissue. highly recommended.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Saturday, 29 January 2022 17:32 (two years ago) link
This just arrived in the mail.
https://i.imgur.com/W4ekt28.jpg
STILL. SEALED.
Chuckling at myself heavily atm.
Haven't heard the whole album in years. Will play it and report back.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:16 (two years ago) link
Oh, it's wonderful of course and I still absolutely love it. Second half was a lot more enjoyable than I remembered it and McCoy Tyner sounds as great as ever (but I am also much more excited to hear it this time). Nothing beats side A though. I think I like it so much because it was just a unique thing for a jazz guy to do a Mike Oldfield kind of setup. And it's just filled with all of those lovely percussive harmonic layers give it a very exotic feel. Almost Martin Denny meets Miles Davis — so much fun! Very classic album in desperate need of a proper reissue.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:57 (two years ago) link
*; gives
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
Classic! Might have to whip out the record now.
― cooldix, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:03 (two years ago) link
I find no fault in doing so! Used vinyl leaning towards the cheapish end for now, but going up (just like everything else!). Worth every penny, I'd say.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
this Calvin Keys album that was reissued recently is so great: https://www.discogs.com/master/592769-Calvin-Keys-Proceed-With-Caution
― brimstead, Wednesday, 30 March 2022 01:02 (two years ago) link
have been really rockin hubbard's keep your soul together lately
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 01:08 (two years ago) link
How has Grant Green not been mentioned yet in this thread? Alive and Live At The Lighthouse are both in the pantheon here. Also Herbie Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda.
(I'm definitely going to check out Solo/Quartet based on Austin's write-up... I'm only familiar with San Francisco and Montara)
― enochroot, Thursday, 31 March 2022 02:29 (two years ago) link
not exactly the right thread for this, but then again i can trace the discovery of the opening tune here back to cooldix's march 2020 post. so here's my covid summer jazz mixtape, which i gave to a friend and promptly forgot about until tonight while rummaging through old cassettes in his basement:
https://soundcloud.com/arquivo_fssr/covid-summer-jazz-mixtape
1. bobby hutcherson - gotcha2. binder quintet w/ john tchicai - közép-európai zajongások (excerpt)3. dave holland and sam rivers - conference of the birds4. chico freeman - kings of mali5. harmut geerken and john tchicai - invocations for angels and demons6. don cherry and latif khan - airmail7. wendell harrison - where am i8. ?9. the pyramids - black man and woman of the nile
props to anyone who can help me ID track 8. starts around 46:40, it's a live recording with like a bongo solo, then a flute joins in, and then a band comes in briefly before it fades out.
― budo jeru, Friday, 16 September 2022 05:22 (one year ago) link
I never really considered checking out that Solo/Quartet album (solo vibes? from 1980?!), but listening to "Gotcha" now, I realize the error of my ways. I should have just trusted Austin.
― enochroot, Friday, 16 September 2022 16:07 (one year ago) link
I'm definitely going to check out Solo/Quartet based on Austin's write-up― enochroot, Wednesday, March 30, 2022
― enochroot, Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Heh, ok, I guess I did consider it.
― enochroot, Friday, 16 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c15pI0i9JAc
eddie henderson - say you will
this is music from heaven
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Monday, 3 April 2023 21:41 (one year ago) link
Nice. Now that I have a working turntable setup at home again I'm scooping up some Eddie Harris records, because you can always find them cheap and they always have some delights. Last one was Live at Newport, which has 1) a fantastic drum sound (with conveniently naked samples on the second track) and 2) at least a few bangers, including a cool 'reed trumpet' solo.
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 3 April 2023 21:59 (one year ago) link