Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (also released as Bobby Hutcherson Live: Cookin' with Blue Note at Montreux) is a live album

Live album

A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...

 by American jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...

 recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival

Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland and one of the most prestigious in Europe; it is held annually in early July in Montreux on the shores of Lake Geneva...

 in 1973 and released on the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label. The album was rereleased on CD with one additional performance from the concert as a bonus track.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4 stars and stated "Hutch and Shaw have ample room for solos, and they prove why they are the best in the business at inventing improvisations based on these viable themes. Ten years after these recordings, Shaw and Hutcherson would reunite for the trumpeter's Elektra Musician dates Night Music and Master of the Art. This excellent performance provides a perfect prelude to those equally potent sessions, and all come highly recommended".

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Hutcherson except as indicated

1. " Anton's Bail" - 12:34
2. "The Moontrane" (Woody Shaw
   Woody Shaw
   Woody Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader, often referred to as the "last innovator" in the jazz trumpet lineage...
   
   ) - 10:42
3. "Farallone" - 13:11 Bonus track on CD reissue
4. "Song of Songs" (Shaw) - 13:50
   • Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland on July 5, 1973.

Personnel

• Bobby Hutcherson
  Bobby Hutcherson
  Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
  
   - vibes
  Vibraphone
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• Woody Shaw
  Woody Shaw
  Woody Shaw was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader, often referred to as the "last innovator" in the jazz trumpet lineage...
  
   - trumpet
  Trumpet
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• Cecil Bernard - piano
  Piano
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• Ray Drummond
  Ray Drummond
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   - bass
  Double bass
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• Larry Hancock - drums
  Drum kit
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