Release Date: 19 January 2018
Label: Challenge Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917343328
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 19 January 2018
Label: Challenge Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 608917343328
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
This album by Steve Hobbs is a beautiful tribute to Bobby Hutcherson.
"Steve Hobbs has long been one of the most talented, if underrated vibraphonists around" Scott Yanow, Jazz Times
Hobbs is joined on the album by an all-star group consisting of Adam Kolker (saxophones), Bill O'Connell (piano), Peter Washington (bass) and John Riley (drums). The recording is centred mostly around cutting edge originals by Hobbs encompassing modern mainstream examples of post-bop, Latin, Funk, Calypso, and more, arranged and performed with the typical creative and hard edged energy you are used to hearing on his past New York Recordings. Hobbs centered the music around marimba, dedicating the recording to his mentor and late friend Bobby Hutcherson.
The groups first CD Spring Cycle, released in 2007 was nominated Jazz Recording of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association of America and made it to #3 on the Jazz Week Jazz Chart. Next in 2010 the group released the critically acclaimed Vibes Straight Up, which hit #1 on its second week of airplay on Jazz Week and remained at #1 for seven weeks!
Tracklisting
John Helliwell, Jasper Somsen, Hans Vroomans, Marcel Serierse
Roseanna Vitro
Jussi Reijonen
Fay Claassen
Chiara Pancaldi
Enrico Pieranunzi, Jorge Rossy & Jasper Somsen
Tineke Postma
John Helliwell
Orchestre Philharmonique De Radio France; Peter Eötvös
Quinsin Nachoff
Stefano Boggiani
Johan Tobias Bergstrom
Troen/Arnesen Quartet
S-E-A
Roy Powell
Oskar Lindberget Quintet