Blow Up (Bobby Hutcherson album)

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Blow Up
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Live album by
Bobby Hutcherson Harold Land Quintet
Released1990
RecordedJuly 25, 1969
Juan-les-Pins
Genre Post-bop
Length56:18
Label Jazz Music Yesterday
JMY 1005-2
Bobby Hutcherson Harold Land Quintet chronology
Now!
(1969)
Blow Up
(1990)
San Francisco
(1970)

Blow Up is a live album by jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released on the Jazz Music Yesterday label. [1]

Contents

Composition

"We were all embracing the political content of the music, versus issuing the traditional and conventional...Our approaches varied. We used sounds prevalent at the time and played in a free form. Our resources were expanded as we set out to re-examine the music. The apex for me came at a concert we had in Antibes. There were great moments at that show where we combined pulses with a great deal of freedom within a fixed form. Bobby was doing these incredible cadenzas."

Track listing

  1. "Spiral" (Chambers) - 13:40
  2. "Blow-Up" (Herbie Hancock) - 14:32
  3. "Herzog" (Hutcherson) - 14:30
  4. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) - 11:40
  5. "Man on Mercury" (Land) - 1:56

Personnel

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