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The Kicker (Bobby Hutcherson album)

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The Kicker
Studio album by
Released1999
RecordedDecember 29, 1963
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreHard bop
Length53:55
LabelBlue Note
Blue Note 21437
ProducerAlfred Lion
Bobby Hutcherson chronology
The Kicker
(1999)
Dialogue
(1965)

The Kicker is an album by the American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, recorded in December 1963 for Blue Note but not released on the label until 1999 as a limited edition.[1] A month earlier, the same musicians recorded guitarist Grant Green's album Idle Moments released in 1965.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]

The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden stated: "The first half features the vibraphonist in a cooking hard bop session with Joe Henderson and Duke Pearson, starting with an energetic take on the normally slow ballad 'If Ever I Would Leave You' and a sizzling Hutcherson original, 'For Duke P.' Guitarist Grant Green is added for the second half, beginning with the first recording of Henderson's 'The Kicker', which became well known from its later rendition on Horace Silver's best selling release Song for My Father".[2]

Track listing

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  1. "If Ever I Would Leave You" (Lerner, Loewe) - 10:33
  2. "Mirrors" (Joe Chambers) - 6:52
  3. "For Duke P." (Bobby Hutcherson) - 7:54
  4. "The Kicker" (Joe Henderson) - 6:07
  5. "Step Lightly" (Henderson) - 14:18
  6. "Bedouin" (Pearson) - 8:11

Personnel

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References

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  1. ^ Bobby Hutcherson discography accessed December 19, 2010
  2. ^ a b Dryden, K. AllMusic Review accessed December 19, 2010
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 739. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.