Bobby Hutcherson: Wise One | CD review

When it comes to exploiting the vibraphone's capacity for making a simple statement sound beautiful, Bobby Hutcherson has no equal. All nine of these pieces are in some way associated with John Coltrane. Hutcherson plays brilliantly on all of them but the ones that stand out are the slow ballads because the atmosphere of calm he creates makes time stand still. Some critics have suggested that, at 68, he's past his best. Well, this was recorded 10 months ago and he still sounds like a master to m...

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