Comments on: Now These Are Some Heavy Hitters

By: Att Klempner

Att Klempner — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 15:28:51 +0000

The cities were burnin’ and along comes Harold Land’s album The Peace maker( cadet lps813) for my ears this is Bobby at his best! These guys played around L.A. for awhile and always cooked! I will miss their sound always.

By: Adamski

Adamski — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 12:44:58 +0000

Bobby Hutcherson RIP… I had a proper session with the Valves.
GG’s ‘Idle Moments’, literally brought tears last night. Dexter’s ‘Manhã de Carnaval’ with Bobby H is too good for words. Finished the listening session with Tranquility from Bobby’s Components LP.
I know another session is in order this weekend with Bobby’s contributions on a lot of great lps.
A glass of Red will be raised, cheers Bobby.

By: Juancho

Juancho — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 02:12:16 +0000

Just like jazz records in good condition, jazz musicians from our Blue Note era are in shorter and shorter supply these days. I was just listening to the Hutcherson Mosaic Select set recently, really great music.

By: cellery

cellery — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:30:28 +0000

Sad to hear about Hutcherson indeed. He’s on a whole bunch of my favorite Blue Notes – Evolution, Idle Moments, Destination Out, One Step Beyond, Life Time and the list goes on …

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 14:37:24 +0000

Yeah, sad news about Hutcherson – was lucky to see him and meet him once about 17 years ago. Real sweetheart in addition to being a great player.

In the record department, I see another 1568 went for $4,000 at a “Best Offer” BIN price.

By: JAZZCOURIER

JAZZCOURIER — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:09:57 +0000

We lost a heavy hitter today….Bobby Hutcherson,at 75. He made it to one of the lists in the recent Blue Note survey,but i think his music deserves much more recognition.Though he was a late bloomer on the label,he stayed almost as long as Horace Silver making him the second most recorded BN artist. The originality, intensity and imagination of his music on his own albums bears repeated listening.Strikingly modern.His collaborations with drummer Joe Chambers are to be celebrated.Though Bobby’s BN’s won’t be behind the velvet rope anytime soon,what would some of the biggie BN sessions be without his vibes? “Out to lunch” without Hutcherson…unthinkable! We still hear you man!

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 03:16:26 +0000

These auctions mirror the Barrett-Jackson auctions in classic cars … these LPs are the Duesenbergs of the vintage jazz segment, it seems. 🙂

By: david j

david j — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:23:44 +0000

I tried to bite the bullet on the Pepper record and in the last few seconds bid about $575, which would have been the most I ever paid for a record by a large margin. What you don’t see in the bid history is that by the time I entered by bid the second highest bid had been registered and mine was never considered. At least I still have my money. On the down side I once sold a m-/m- copy of this record for a friend that was experiencing financial problems. I regret every day as a collector that I couldn’t buy that record and every other record he had me sell that auction. I’ve never had a real chance of owning them since.

By: Rich DG Mono

Rich DG Mono — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 02:15:04 +0000

The most astonishing thing about these auctions is that in both, one of the last couple bids is $1500 higher than the highest bid before it. With the Trane record it was 3 collectors willing to go that far up, with the Clark record it was only two of them. And don’t forget, with the Clark record, for example, were it not for c***e’s bid, n***o would have went home with that record for about $1,500 less than they ended up paying for it! Crazy to think that one person forced that large of a difference in the final price.

End of the day, I’m jealous and I always will be.