Jazz LP BOBBY HUTCHERSON "Happenings" BLUE NOTE Liberty VAN GELDER ’66 NM shrink

$

118

Artist:   BOBBY HUTCHERSON

Title:   “Happenings”

Label:   BLUE NOTE.  Stereo pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Labels are blue/white, does not have deep groove.  Catalog number is BST 84231.

Label address is “BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC * A DIVISION OF LIBERTY RECORDS, INC.” on both sides. 

“VAN GELDER” is stamped in the runout groove on both sides. 

Jacket address is as follows:  “For Complete Catalogue Write to BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC., 43 West 61ST St., New York 10023” with LIBERTY logo at top left corner.

Personnel:  

Bobby Hutcherson – vibes & marimba

Herbie Hancock – piano

Bob Cranshaw – bass

Joe Chambers - drums. 

Condition: 

DISC: NEAR MINT with 100% of original gloss, as clean as can be found.  Appears to have been played one or two times at most, and handled with care.  Labels are clean.  Fidelity is superb.  A gorgeous disc you will never need to upgrade.

JACKET:  Jacket is NEAR MINT in original factory shrink wrap.  Flawless front and back panels.  Excellent seams and corners.  No writing, stickers, or other problems.  A beautiful jacket worthy of display.

Disc is neatly enclosed in Liberty Records paper inner sleeve, in top condition

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Aquarian Moon
• Bouquet
• Rojo

Side Two:

• Maiden Voyage
• Head Start
• When You Are Near
• The Omen

Review:

“Bobby Hutcherson’s first quartet outing, Happenings, casts the brightest spotlight on the vibraphonist's soloing abilities, matching him once again with pianist Herbie Hancock (who is also heavily featured) and drummer Joe Chambers, plus bassist Bob Cranshaw.  For that matter, the album also leans heavily on Hutcherson's compositional skills; save for Hancock's "Maiden Voyage," six of the seven numbers are Hutcherson originals.  Given his reputation as a modernist, most of the pieces here are structured pretty simply -- there's a lot of straightforward modal hard bop, giving Hutcherson and Hancock plenty of room to solo.  They handle much of the material with a light, mellow touch, trading off meditative licks even on the more up-tempo pieces and poignant, lyrical lines on the ballads "Bouquet" and "When You Are Near."  The two exceptions are the opening and closing numbers: "Aquarian Moon" is challenging post-bop, while the sinister "The Omen" finds Hutcherson opening up the bag of tricks he learned from the freely structured group dialogues Chambers wrote for albums past.  Sharp stabs from the piano signal transition to a new, sometimes unaccompanied lead instrument, and Hutcherson's darting marimba lines build up a claustrophobic tension.  That doesn't change the overall feel of the album, though, which ends up a charmingly relaxed, low-key outing and a nice addition to Hutcherson's Blue Note catalog.”

(courtesy Steve Huey, allmusic.com.)

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