Tribute to Bobby by Steve Hobbs

Steve Hobbs

Tribute to Bobby

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Challenge Records
UPC: 0608917343328
Catnr: CR 73433
Release date: 12 January 2018
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Label
Challenge Records

UPC
0608917343328

Catalogue number
CR 73433

Release date
12 January 2018

"Excellent jazz album."

Music Emotion, 04-5-2018

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About the album

Marimba / vibes veteran Steve Hobbs releases his strongest release in his forty three year career on Challenge Records. The recording is centered 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.

This is the group’s third recording. It’s a hot all-star group consisting of Steve Hobbs / marimba and vibes, Adam Kolker / saxes, Bill O’Connell / piano, Peter Washington / bass and John Riley / drums. 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!

"This album is a beautiful tribute to Bobby Hutcherson. The playing is masterful, the compositions beautiful, and show a Bobby Hutcherson influence - in essence, a heartfelt and touching tribute." Ron Miller (pianist and composer for Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Red Rodney, Joe Lavano, Gerry Bergonzi, Ira Sullivan, Jerry Coker, Bruce Hornsby and more).

"This is a top notch release by one of the very best vibes and marimba players around today, bar none. Great playing, great musicians, top quality sound and very attractive choice of material. Highly recommended!". Randy Johnston, guitarist for Lionel Hampton, Lou Donaldson, Jackie McLean, Etta Jones, Jack McDuff, Houston Person, Dr. Lonnie Smith and more.

“Steve Hobbs has long been one of the most talented, if underrated vibraphonists around.” Scott Yanow, Jazz Times

“Hobbs sounds killin’!” Mike Mainieri, award winning vibraphonist and producer

“I sure have enjoyed working several projects with Steve Hobbs; you can expect to hear lots more from him in the future.” Kenny Barron, pianist

“Vibes Straight Up means swinging and also moving!” John Ephland, Downbeat

Marimba- und Vibraphonveteran Steve Hobbs bringt auf Challenge Records seine stärkste Veröffentlichung seiner 43-jährigen Karriere heraus. Im Zentrum der Aufnahme stehen überwiegend brandneue Eigenkompositionen Hobbs’, einschließlich moderner Mainstream-Elemente von Post-Hop, Latin, Funk, Calypso und vielen mehr, arrangiert und performt mit der typischen kreativen, direkten Energie, die man von seinen New Yorker Aufnahmen kennt. In den Fokus der Musik stellt Hobbs die Marimba und widmet die Aufnahme seinem Mentor und kürzlich verstorbenen Freund Bobby Hutcherson.

Dies ist die dritte CD der Gruppe, einer heißen All-Star-Band bestehend aus Steve Hobbs an Marimba und Vibraphon, Adam Kolker am Sax, Bill O’Connell am Klavier, Peter Washington am Bass und John Riley an den Drums. Spring Cycle, die erste CD der Gruppe und 2007 veröffentlicht, wurde von der Jazz Journalists Association of America für die Jazz-Aufnahme des Jahres nominiert und schaffte es auf Platz 3 der Jazz Week Jazz Charts. 2010 veröffentlichte die Band das viel gelobte Album Vibes Straight Up, das in seiner zweiten Woche on air auf Jazz Week Platz Nummer 1 erreichte und dort für die nächsten sieben Woche blieb!

„Dieses Album ist ein wunderschönes Tribut an Bobby Hutcherson. Die Musiker spielen meisterhaft, die Kompositionen sind schön und zeigen Bobby Hutchersons Einfluss – kurz, eine herzliche und berührende Hommage.“ Ron Miller, Pianist und Komponist für Stan Getz, Pat Metheny, Red Rodney, Joa Lavano, Gerry Gergonzi, Ira Sullivan, Jerry Coker, Bruce Hornsby u.a.

„Steve Hobbs ist einer der talentiertesten, wenn auch unterschätztesten Vibraphonisten.“ Scott Yanow, Jazz Times

„Hobbs klingt mörderisch gut!“ Mike Manieri, preisgekrönter Vibraphonist und Produzent

„Ich habe die Arbeit mit Steve Hobbs an mehreren Projekten definitiv genossen; man darf sich darauf freuen, in der Zukunft noch viel mehr von ihm zu hören.“ Kenny Barron, Pianist

„Vibes Straight Up bedeutet Swingen, aber auch Bewegung!“ John Ephland, Downbeat

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Steve Hobbs (vibraphone)

Steve Hobbs (Raleigh, 1955) began at age 7 playing hand drums. He started trumpet and drumset at age 11. At 17, he switched to vibes and from here things only went up. Steve attended Berklee College of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance in 1978. He continued his education by receiving a Master of Music in Jazz Mallet Performance in 1982 from the University of Miami. Throughout the years, Steve Hobbs has performed concerts and in jazz clubs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has been a headliner at many Jazz festivals. Steve has done extensive touring as a leader or sideman with such players as Tom Harell, Art Van Damme, Randy Johnston, John...

Steve Hobbs (Raleigh, 1955) began at age 7 playing hand drums. He started trumpet and drumset at age 11. At 17, he switched to vibes and from here things only went up. Steve attended Berklee College of Music, where he received his Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance in 1978. He continued his education by receiving a Master of Music in Jazz Mallet Performance in 1982 from the University of Miami. Throughout the years, Steve Hobbs has performed concerts and in jazz clubs in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He has been a headliner at many Jazz festivals. Steve has done extensive touring as a leader or sideman with such players as Tom Harell, Art Van Damme, Randy Johnston, John Stowell, Janice Barnett ("Janice"), Johnny San Sone ("Jumpin' Johnny"), and many more.Steve has recorded as a leader or sideman with Kenny Barron, Steve Berrios, Alan Broadbent, Luis Conti, Bruce Foreman, Tom Harrell, Randy Johnston, Joe LaBarbera, Victor Lewis, Bob Malach, Eddie Marshall, Bill O'Connell, John Patitucci, Rufus Reid, John Riley, Bob Sheppard, Dave Valentin, Peter Washington, and many others.Steve's latest release, Spring Cycle, was nominated for Best Album of the Year (2005) by the Jazz Journalists Association of America. The album hit #3 on the Jazz Week Jazz charts in June 2005. Steve was added to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz in 2005 and was recognized as one of the 10 best vibists in the world by the BMG All Music Guide to Jazz in 1998. He has been featured in Jazz Times, Jazziz, Downbeat, All About Jazz, Cadence, and other international newspapers, journals and magazines. His music consistently gets major radio airplay in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. In June 2001, Steve was featured on BBC radio in "Vibes in Jazz, an Interview with Two American Vibraphonists: Gary Burton and Steve Hobbs," and is currently featured on the Time Warner Cable Jazz Network.

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Peter Washington (bass)

Adam Kolker (saxophone)

Bill O'Connel (piano)'>Bill O'Connel (piano)

John Riley (drums)

Carol Ingbretsen (vocals)

Maurice Myers (vocals)

Marvin Thorne (vocals)

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Steve Hobbs (vibraphone)

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Richard Rodgers

Lorenz Hart

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Excellent jazz album.
Music Emotion, 04-5-2018

Of course there is virtuoso and mobile music playing and dominates the use of the marimba, which gives the album its own color.
Jazzmozaiek, 15-3-2018

All in all, this is an enjoyable set that one could imagine Bobby Hutcherson enjoying.
Jazziz, 01-2-2018

This is a proper tribute to Hutcherson if there ever was one, even though it wasn't planned as such. Hobbs' detailed liner notes are informative, entertaining, required reading.
Downbeat, 03-1-2018

The augmentation of Hobbs' long-held rhythm section with Kolker's reeds adds needed tonal variety. Since everything is more than thoroughly explained in the booklet all I can add is everything about this issue is first rate.
Cadence, 03-1-2018