Dialogue (Bobby Hutcherson album)
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| Studio album by Bobby Hutcherson | ||||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
5/6 |
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45:25 (CD) |
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Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey |
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Dialogue is a jazz album by Bobby Hutcherson , recorded by Rudy Van Gelder in Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey on April 3, 1965 and released on Blue Note Records .
The album
prehistory
Two years after vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson first acted as a sideman on a Blue Note session, on Jackie McLean's album One Step Beyond - in April 1965 he was given the first opportunity to record and publish an album under his own name; Alfred Lion had held back a previous session ( The Kicker ) because it had the same line-up as the Grant Green album Idle Moments (November 1963). Later, in the liner notes for the new edition of Dialogue , Bob Blumenthal speculated that the more conventional album The Kicker did not match Hutcherson's stylistic development, which had taken place on albums of the jazz avant-garde since 1964, such as Eric Dolphy's album Out to Lunch! , Tony Williams ' Life Time and Andrew Hills Judgment! . As a composer and pianist, he played a key role in the concept of the Dialogue album. With Freddie Hubbard , Richard Davis , Hutcherson had worked on the 1964 Dolphy album. The vibraphonist later remembered this phase of free jazz , that the musicians of this generation, who often did not have a cabaret card to perform in clubs, met in lofts for jam sessions or in parks to try out new things. He remembers driving home full of impressions from a lecture by Malcolm X on a street corner and an open-air concert by Sun Ra to write things down just to be part of this whole development. :
The music of the album
Most of the material on the Dialogue album was written by Andrew Hill; the composition "Idle While" and the title piece contributed drummer Joe Chambers . The album established Joe Chambers' role as a composer, which would then continue in the next Hutcherson album Components . The first track, Andrew Hill's composition "Catta", is a mambo in 8/8 time. Sam Rivers plays a solo on the tenor, accompanied by a percussive Andrew Hill. Hubbard has the second solo, followed by Hutcherson's extended solo playing on the softer sounding marimba ; it was "a kind of pieces in which I can get lost," Hutcherson said later. Chambers' "Idle While" is a calm composition in 3/4 time. According to AB Spellman (in the original liner notes ), Richard Davis' bass game accompanying Hubbard's and Hutcherson's excellent solos is impressive . Davis then sets in for his solo, accompanied by the rhythm section; then Rivers improvised as a flautist.
The following “Les Noirs Marchants” (The March of the Blacks) is started at the march-tempo, only to break up in free group improvisation afterwards. Nobody plays a leading role anymore; Joe Chambers described this as an example of the “pulse of the group”.
The following Chambers composition “Dialogue” is similarly open; Chambers' concept of free rhythmic play allows the rhythm section consisting of vibraphone, bass, piano and drums a kind of rotation around the beat and constant changes, in which the wind instruments, including Rivers on bass clarinet, step in. Hutcherson developed the idea here of deliberately playing "no solos"; Vibraphone and bass clarinet play short duets; similar to piano and bass, then vibraphone and Hubbard's trumpet again.
The last track on the original album was Andrew Hill's “Ghetto Lights” in 6/4 time, which is more conventional than the previous tracks; he was inspired by the sight of the slums on the hills of São Paulo . It contains a lyrical solo by Hubbard played with the plunger damper , followed by a lovely, relaxed soprano saxophone solo by Sam Rivers . Hutcherson does not appear as a soloist until the end of the quiet piece.
Impact history
The All Music Guide rated Dialogue 2001 with the second highest grade; also Richard Cook and Brian Morton in their Penguin Guide to Jazz . You notice that Dialogue is probably the most ambitious album the vibraphonist has ever recorded. Much of the energy of the 1964 Out to Lunch session with Eric Dolphy, in which Hutcherson, Davis and Hubbard played, can also be found on this album. The really most amazing piece of the Dialogue session, however, was “Les Noirs Marchants”, his ability to move in the musical spaces between Hill and Chambers was remarkable. Ian Carr describes the LP in Rough Guide Jazz as the classic album of the era.
The titles
- Bobby Hutcherson Sextet - Dialogue (Blue Note 84198/35586 / CDP 746537-2 / B21Y 46537)
- Catta (Hill) 7:17
- Idle While (Chambers) 7:21
- Les Noirs Marchant (Hill) 6:37
- Dialogue (chambers) 9:38
- Ghetto Lights (Hill) 6:12
- Jasper (Hill) 8:29 (bonus track)
literature
- Bob Blumenthal: Liner notes for the new edition 2002
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- AB Spellman: Original liner notes .