BOBBY HUTCHERSON: MONTARA

BOBBY HUTCHERSON
Impossível pensar em Bobby Hutcherson sem associá-lo a CAL TJADER; afinal, as semelhanças são mesmo enormes: dois luminares do vibrafone, absolutamente apaixonados por latin jazz e sempre cercados por grandes músicos e percussionistas latinos. Ademais, ambos são herdeiros diretos da grande fonte inspiradora, do "mainstream" do vibrafone: MILT JACKSON.
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BOBBY HUTCHERSON
Bobby Hutcherson (born January 27, 1941 in Los Angeles)[1] is a jazz vibraphone and
marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern. Attracted foremost to more experimental free jazz and post-bop, Hutcherson made early recordings in this style with Jackie McLean, Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Grachan Moncur III, Joe Chambers, and Freddie Hubbard, both as a leader and a sideman.Hutcherson has influenced younger vibraphonists like Steve Nelson, Joe Locke and Stefon Harris.
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ALBUM COMMENTS
With the possible exception of Grover Washington's Feels So Good, no other album
captured the spirit of jazz in 1975 like Bobby Hutcherson's Montara. Recorded in his home town of L.A., Montara is the very sound of groove jazz coming out of fusion, and Latin jazz's tough salsa rhythms coming home to roost in something more warm and effluvial that would meet the populace where it was changing and mellowing out rather than making it sit up and take notice. That said, Montara is, like the Washington record, a masterpiece of the genre even though it isn't celebrated in the same way. Featuring a stellar cast of musicians -- among them Willie Bobo, Blue Mitchell, Bobby Matos, Ernie Watts, Harvey Mason, Plas Johnson, Fred Jackson, Larry Nash, and Chuck Domanico -- Montara is a portrait of Hutcherson's complex gift of subtlety and virtuosity. Whether it's the funky Weather Report dance of "Camel Rise," with Nash's electric piano and the horns weaving around one another in a
soulful samba melody, the sweet soulful groove of the title track, where Hutcherson's solo lilts to the point of actually singing, the killer Cuban salsa of "La Malanga," done in complete minor-key frenzy (all the while without losing the easy, slippery grace o soul-jazz), the shimmering echoplexed electric piano and vibes interplay on "Love Song," or the steaming, burning gasoline orgy of Hutcherson's read of Santana's "Oye Como Va," with a killer flute line by Watts winding its way through a knotty bassline and multi-part percussion, the effect is the same: blissed-out moving and grooving for a summer day. Hutcherson's chameleon-like ability to shape-shift is truly remarkable as a sideman and
especially as a leader. He never overplays, his charts are tight, and he always creates a band vibe. Almost all of his solo recordings reflect the strengths of the ensemble rather than his strengths as a soloist. Montara is one of the great feel-good jazz albums of the 1970s, one of the great Latin jazz albums of the 1970s, and one of the great groove jazz records. Seek it out without hesitation.
(by Thom Jurek, AMG)
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MINHA OPINIÃO: cercado pelo "creme-do-creme" do jazz, (latin & straight ahead), BOBBY HUTCHERSON, na mesma linha do seu "alter-ego" Cal Tjader, nos brinda com um delicioso álbum cujo fecho de ouro, não por acaso, é o onipresente tema de Tito Puente "Oye como va", que depois de passar anos na obscuridade, despontou como um hino do latin-jazz, depois de gravado por Carlo Santanta. A escalação do "dream-team" é UM LUXO.
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BOBBY HUTCHERSON: MONTARA
Label: Blue Note
Year: 1970

PEERSONNEL:
Bobby Hutcherson (Vibes and Marimba)
Blue Mitchell (Trumpet) - 2-7
Oscar Brashear (Trumpet) - 1-3,6,7
Plas Johnson (Flute and Soprano Saxophone) - 1,4,5
Ernie Watts (Tenor Saxophone and Flute)
Fred Jackson (Flute and Tenor Saxophone) - 1
Larry Nash (Electric Piano) - 1,4,5
Dennis Budimir (Guitar) - 1
Chuck Domanico (Double Bass) - 1,4,5
Harvey Mason (Drums) - 1,4
Ralph MacDonald (Percussion) - 1,4,5
Bobby Matos (Percussion)
Victor Pantoja (Percussion)
Johnny Palomo (Percussion)
Willie Bobo (Percussion) - 4
Eddie Cano (Piano) - 2,3,6,7
Dave Troncoso (Double Bass) - 2,3,6,7
Rudy Calzado (Percussion) - 2,3,6,7

TRACKS/FAIXAS:
1. Camel Rise (George Cables) 5:34
2. Montara (Bobby Hutcherson) 4:59
3. (Se Acabo) La Malanga (Rudy Calzado) 4:16
4. Love Song (George Cables) 5:38
5. Little Angel (Eddie Martinez) 3:55
6. Yuyo (Bobby Hutcherson) 6:41
7. Oye Como Va (Tito Puente) 3:14

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