Dialogue

by Bobby Hutcherson

Dialogue cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1965
  • Label: Blue Note
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:22
  • Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A landmark session from the Blue Note avant-garde, 'Dialogue' exemplifies the movement's 'structured freedom.' Featuring a unique and colorful ensemble, the music navigates tense, rhythmically complex themes before breaking into sections of freer, textural improvisation. The album is a key document of how the era's leading innovators were applying rigorous compositional thought to the new freedoms of the avant-garde.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, piano, complex, classic, elegant

Tracklist

  1. Catta (7:19)
  2. Idle While (6:38)
  3. Les Noirs Marchant (6:41)
  4. Dialogue (9:59)
  5. Ghetto Lights (6:45)

Credits

  • Bobby Hutcherson - primary artist, vibraphone, marimba
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Reid Miles - design [cover]
  • Joe Chambers - drums, written-by
  • Alfred Bennett Spellman, Jr. - liner notes
  • Francis Wolff - photography by [cover photo]
  • Andrew Hill - piano, written-by
  • Alfred Lion - producer
  • Rudy Van Gelder - recorded by [recording by], lacquer cut by
  • Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
  • Freddie Hubbard - trumpet

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