LP: Blue Note (King) GXF 3061 (Japan) 1 'Til Then (Hutcherson) 2 My Joy (Hutcherson) 3 Theme from "Blow Up" (Hancock) 4 Subtle Neptune (Hutcherson) 5 Oblique (Chambers) 6 Bi-Sectional (Chambers) Personnel Recording Date & Location Notes Commentary Oblique is Hutcherson's second album to feature a quartet, and
the line up from the previous quartet record, Happenings,
is unchanged except for the bassist. The overall feeling of the music
is similar too, although Oblique sounds a shade looser, a shade
less inward. Also, this time Joe Chambers contributes two excellent compositions,
in addition to Hancock's "Theme from 'Blow Up'," and three pieces
by Hutcherson. (I especially love Hutcherson's "My Joy," which
begins with a wide-eyed, child-like theme, an echo of the feelings in
"Little B's Poem," before modulating into something much more
adventurous and thrusting.) |
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