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In the Vanguard

Bobby Hutcherson and Joey DeFrancesco

By DAVE SEGAL

Published on December 06, 2007

Hutcherson ranks among jazz's elite vibraphonists and composers, with several classic LPs on Blue Note (including Dialogue, Stick-Up! and Now!) and sideman appearances on masterpieces such as Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch and Andrew Hill's Judgment. The LA legend can get as intricate and "out" as any avant-gardist--and also wine and dine you with cascading soul-jazz motifs and supple, elegant melodies. Hutch's melodic sophistication and hectic-yet-controlled rhythmic mastery make you feel like a million bucks in loose change. Thirty years Hutch's junior, 36-year-old Hammond B-3 wiz DeFrancesco has played with Miles Davis and John McLaughlin, and for that alone, he deserves an open bar tab everywhere he goes till the day he dies. Considered a master of soul jazz and blues, the Philadelphia-born keyboardist makes his beloved organ purr, ripple and swell with church-of-Jimmy-Smith authority.
Dec. 21-22, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., 2007

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