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Bobby Hutcherson
real name Robert Hutcherson
Los Angeles, United States · 1941-01-27 – 2016-08-15
Bobby Hutcherson is credited on 1,473 releases across 322 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
1,473
Credits
322
Albums
7
Decades active
581
In collections
Biography
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American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.
Born January 27, 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA
Died August 15, 2016, Montara, California, USA
Nephew of Jazz trumpeter.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
1,473 releases · 322 albums · active 1961–2025
- Performance · 2,430
- Other credits · 60
- Production · 6
- Engineering · 1
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · Newport Jazz Festival · Town Hall, New York · Village Gate
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Illmatic
1994
Shades Of Blue
2003
Out To Lunch!
1964
Idle Moments
1965
Destination... Out!
1964
San Francisco
1971
Mode For Joe
1966
Hand On The Torch
1993
Ethiopian Knights
1972
Deciphering The Message
2021
Stick-Up!
1968
Happenings
1967
Evolution
1964
The New Breed
2016
Time For Tyner
1969
Gettin' Around
1966
Candy
1958
The Kicker
1999
The Phantom
1968
Blue Note Re:imagined
2020
Oblique
1979
Sophisticated Giant
1977
Blue Note: Alts'n Outs
2025
Musical Prophet (The Expanded 1963 New York Studio Sessions)
2018
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