| Hard Times | ||||
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| Released | November 3, 2017 | |||
| Recorded | May 30, 2017 | |||
| Studio | Sear Sound, Studio C, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 69:35 | |||
| Label | Smoke Sessions | |||
| Producer | Paul Stache, Damon Smith | |||
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Hard Times is an album by saxophonist Vincent Herring, which was recorded in 2017 and released on the Smoke Sessions label. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| DownBeat |    [2] |
DownBeat reviewed the album stating,
Hard Times is easy to take. The tempos bob along in a relaxed sway but don’t inhibit Herring’s splashy whirlpools of elegant double-time embroideries. In different ways, he walks in the footsteps of Cannonball Adderley—figuratively in the stylistic sense, and literally as part of the Nat Adderley group in the ’90s ... Like many of Herring’s past projects, this one welcomes us with a few familiar handshakes we all know. [2]
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