Oblique

Artist: Bobby Hutcherson
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724356383326
EAN: 0724356383326
ASIN: B000A2H7SG

Release Date: 2005-08-02

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Tracks:

'Til Then
My Joy
Theme From 'Blow Up'
Subtle Neptune
Oblique
Bi-Sectional

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Customer Reviews:

This is the real thing!.......2006-08-21

This is a great album from the master of the vibes. It has it all. Some beautiful sounds - 'Til Then', 'My Joy'. Some avant garde - 'Oblique' and 'Bi-Sectional'. Bobby is great, but the supporting cast is awesome. Herbie Hancock as always, is fantastic. Joe Chambers provides the drive on drums, and also contributes a couple of fine compositions - 'Oblique' and 'Bi-Sectional'. I was not familiar with Albert Stinson, the bassist, but he has a beautiful, fat sound, much like Bob Cranshaw. What a tragedy that he died shortly after this recording. And that is another thing. The recorded sound is rich and detailed. This is one of the best 'RVG' editions. I put it up there with Hank Mobley's 'Soul Station' as far as sound quality. Maybe because it was a quartet too and there is more 'space' for the individual instruments. At any rate, musically and sonically, 'Oblique' is a treasure.

Beautiful.......2006-07-23

This is really beautiful music. Im not sure why it wasnt originally released until 13 years after the recording date. It deserved to have been released immediately. Herbie Hancock and Bobby complement each other perfectly. Bobby's vibes playing, particularly in the title tune, is technically and melodically beyond belief. He plays lines on the vibes that are exquisite and very demanding. Bi-Sectional features some very accessible free playing that is a joy to listen to. The bass playing of Albert Stinson is also of note. He plays brilliantly throughout the entire album and would have continued to had his life not been tragically cut short. Joe Chambers also provides excellent support and contributions to the set including 'Til Then. This song is of jazz standard quality. All in all, this album is, to use the well-worn cliche, excellent. To me it conjures up images of the night, and other unexplainable emotions. I cant tell you to buy it, but if you feel the way i do when you hear Bobby Hutcherson's vibes playing, you should.

Precision, Beauty.......2006-05-23

Hancock and Hutcherson fit together so well on this date that it sounds like a single man with four arms playing. The recording is also breathtaking: listen to it loud on a suuround system and you'll hear what I mean. Plus, "My Joy" and "Til' Then" are two of Hutcherson's best compositions. Equal parts thorny and exquisite. Not quite the masterpiece that "Dialogue" is, but why carp?

An Essential and Intriguing Blue Note Treasure.......2005-09-17

This remarkable 1967 recording, previously only available as a Japanese import, can be seen as a follow-up to the brilliant quartet setting of Hutcherson's "Happenings," with the virtuosic and tragically short-lived Albert Stinson replacing Bob Cranshaw on bass. Of particular strength is the cut "My Joy," which begins by pairing a delicate, haunting melody in triple meter against drummer Joe Chambers' backbeat of "four," then suddenly morphs into something dissonant, fast-paced and furious. Fans of Herbie Hancock will appreciate the inclusion of his catchy and propulsive "Theme from Blow Up," evocative of "Maiden Voyage," and will enjoy his lyrical soloing on the Hutcherson-penned bossa "Til Then," bringing to mind his sublime "Speak Like a Child." This is an album of profound depth and beauty.

Nothing Oblique About "Oblique".......2005-08-16

Bobby Hutcherson's "Dialogue" is an undisputed modern jazz masterpiece, but in the last twenty years, the average fan would have been hard pressed to locate a second Blue Note album by the vibraphonist. Yes, many of his albums have been available as limited edition titles in the Connoisseur Series, or briefly at the dawn of the CD era before drifting out-of-print. But only with the recent reissue of "Oblique" in the RVG Edition Series (with different cover art than the original CD I might add), has another Hutch disc finally received a permanent place in the EMI catalog. This July 21, 1967 session features three Hutcherson originals, Herbie Hancock's "Theme from Blow Up" -- the album's catchiest tune -- and two compositions by Joe Chambers, the title track and "Bi-Sectional." Chambers' writing talents have always amazed me for both their creativity and complexity (from a drummer, who knew?), and his contributions here are the album's best. However, Hutch's numbers have grown in stature as well from the days of "Components" and "Happenings" (he penned nothing on "Dialogue"), particularly on the opener "Til Then." Of final interest to jazz aficionados is the presence of Albert Stinson, a bass virtuoso who died of a drug overdose in 1969 and left us precious few recordings. A delightful disc, there is nothing oblique about "Oblique."

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