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The Kicker

The Kicker cover
RecordedDec 29, 1963
LabelBlue Note
Released1963
Personnel6 credited players
Discogsmaster 336467

The record

A December 1963 date that waited over ten years for release, pairing Joe Henderson's tenor and Grant Green's guitar with Duke Pearson's blues-rooted tunes. Early Hutcherson working a soulful, front-line-heavy hard bop lineup.

Session personnel

  • Bob Cranshaw — bass
  • Al Harewood — drums
  • Grant Green — guitar
  • Duke Pearson — piano
  • Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
  • Bobby Hutcherson — vibraphone [vibes]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

We hold no pressing data for this title at all -- not one LP row, original or reissue, and no catalog number we can stand behind. Nothing on this page should be read as a claim that an original-era copy is out there waiting. If you find one, verify the label, catalog number and deadwax yourself before you spend, because we cannot check it for you.

1999Blue Note · 7243 5 21437 2 6 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Misprint, Stereo · RVG stamp
1999Blue Note · 7243 5 21437 2 6 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo · RVG stamp
1999Blue Note · 7243 5 21437 2 6 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Stereo · RVG stamp
1999Blue Note · 7243 5 21437 2 6 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Misprint, Promo, Stereo · RVG stamp
2013Blue Note — File, FLAC, Album, Reissue
2013Universe (3) — File, MP3, Album, Reissue, VBR
2020Blue Note — STEREO

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