''Highway One'' is an album by American jazz vibraphonist

Bobby Hutcherson Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album '' Components'', is one of his best-known compositions.Huey, Steve. "Components – Bob ...

recorded in 1978 and released on the Columbia label.Bobby Hutcherson discography
accessed January 28, 2011 The album was Hutcherson's first for Columbia after a long association with

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Reception

The

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review by

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awarded the album 3½ stars stating "With keyboardist

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and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson contributing all of the compositions, it is not too surprising that this LP has plenty of strong melodies... A fine (if not overly adventurous) outing".Yanow, S
Allmusic Review
accessed January 28, 2011

Track listing

:''All compositions by Bobby Hutcherson except as indicated'' # "Secrets of Love" (George Cables) - 8:17 # "Bouquet" - 6:20 # "Highway One" - 7:27 # "Sweet Rita Suite (Part 2 - Her Soul)" (Cables) - 6:09 # "Circle" (Cables) - 5:00 # "Secrets of Love (Reprise)" (

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, Cables) - 8:32 :*Recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco, California between May 30 and June 23, 1978

Personnel

- vibes,

arranger In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

* James Leary - bass *

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(tracks 1 & 3-6), arranger *

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- piano (track 2), arranger *

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(tracks 1, 5 & 6) *

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(track 4) *Kenneth Nash -

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(tracks 1, 3, 5 & 6) *

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

(track 6) *Unnamed strings and brass

References

{{Authority control Columbia Records albums Bobby Hutcherson albums 1978 albums