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Bruce Forman: There Are Times

LP: Concord Jazz CJ-332
CD: Concord Jazz CCD-4332

Tracks & Composers
1 There Are Times (Marshall)
2 Milan K (Wissels)
3 All the Things You Are (Hammerstein, Kern)
4 The Nearness of You (Carmichael, Washington)
5 Stella by Starlight (Washington, Young) [CD bonus track]
6 Con Alma (Gillespie)
7 Strike up the Band (Gershwin, Gershwin)
8 Prelude to a Kiss (Ellington, Gordon, Mills)
9 Little Rootie Tootie (Monk)

Hutcherson is on tracks 2-4, 8 and 9

Personnel
Bruce Forman (g); Bobby Hutcherson (vib); George Cables (p); Jeff Carney (b); Eddie Marshall (d)

Recording Date & Location
August 1986, San Francisco, CA

Commentary
There Are Times is a pleasant, laid back collection of standards in the jazz mainstream style. It doesn't offer much that's terribly new, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do beautifully. Hutcherson plays on five of the nine tracks. He solos most extensively on their gentle version of Duke's "Prelude to a Kiss." I should also mention George Cables' playing. His work on "Stella by Starlight" and "Con Alma" is particularly lovely and compelling.