Bobby Hutcherson died, a history of the vibraphone and Blue Note – publico

 
         

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
 

The American vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, one of the historical jazz past that instrument always more behind the scenes than the footlights, died on Monday, aged 75, in Montara, California (USA), revealed the newspaper New York Times .

the musician, who died of pulmonary emphysema, was made notice from the 1960s in New York, and will become was one of the greatest activists diversifying the language of vibraphone and one of its most legendary practitioners. But as he remembered a critical of The Guardian only two years ago, when released her last album, Enjoy the View , the publishing house that between 1963 and 1977 was your home, the mythical Blue Note, Hutcherson was not just a top two vibrafonistas ever: became “one of the most creative musicians of Blue Note”, regardless of the instrument.

Fluent in conservative language of bop, has not ceased to be “one of the first to adapt the vibraphone to freer language of post-bop,” recalls new York Times , integrating a new generation of artists who pushed the Blue Note towards experimentalism, and that included, says the US daily, pianist Andrew Hill and saxophonist Jackie McLean.

Born in Los Angeles in 1941, the son of a trowel and a hairdresser, chose the vibraphone (also played marimba), despite having had piano lessons, after an epiphany when he heard a recording of vibraphonist Milt Jackson a record store. After a start very inauspicious with the formation of bassist Herbie Lewis, eventually pursue a career and get to New York, where he arrived to take a taxi to pay the bills (he was already married to Beth Buford, who had a son, Barry, who would be the inspiration of his most famous band, Little B’s Poem ). It ended the Blue Note thanks the same Herbie Lewis, who introduced him to Jackie McLean; One Step Beyond , of McLean, it was his first recording for the label. “From then on, he was always busy,” he says New York Times .

With over 40 published albums, the first of which, Dialogue in 1965, Hutcherson has come to act several times in Portugal, especially in Jazz festivals in Summer Day in Palmela (1983), Guimarães Jazz (2003) and Estoril Jazz (2008).

Once you have recorded other publishers, including the European Kind of Blue, returned to Blue Note already more recently, where he recorded with Joey DeFrancesco, David Sanborn and Billy Hart who was to be the his latest album.

in 1986, participated in the film around Midnight , Bertrand Tavernier, alongside saxophonist Dexter Gordon and pianist Herbie Hancock