Happenings (Bobby Hutcherson album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Happenings

| type = Studio album

| artist = Bobby Hutcherson

| cover = Happenings.jpg

| alt =

| released = End of January 1967[https://books.google.com/books?id=9SgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=happenings+hutcherson&pg=PA36 Billboard Jan 28, 1967]

| recorded = February 8, 1966

| venue =

| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

| genre = Post-bop

| length = 43:53

| label = Blue Note
BST 84231

| producer = Alfred Lion

| prev_title = Components

| prev_year = 1965

| next_title = Stick-Up!

| next_year = 1966

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000192021|first=Steve|last=Huey}}

| rev2 = DownBeat

| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}Down Beat: March 23, 1967 vol. 34, no. 6

| rev3 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz

| rev3Score = {{rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=740}}

}}

Happenings is an album by the jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released in 1967 on the Blue Note label. The album contains six compositions by Hutcherson, and one by Herbie Hancock, "Maiden Voyage".

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Hutcherson, except as indicated.

  1. "Aquarian Moon" - 7:45
  2. "Bouquet" - 8:10
  3. "Rojo" - 6:03
  4. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) - 5:49
  5. "Head Start" - 5:16
  6. "When You Are Near" - 3:51
  7. "The Omen" - 6:59

Personnel

  • Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone (tracks 1-6), marimba, drums (track 7 only)
  • Herbie Hancock - piano, box full of rocks (track 7 only)
  • Bob Cranshaw - bass
  • Joe Chambers - drums, marimba (track 7 only), triangle (tracks 2, 7), timpani (track 7 only)

References