Happenings (Bobby Hutcherson album)

Happenings
Studio album by
Released End of January 1967
Recorded February 8, 1966
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Post-bop
Length 43:53
Label Blue Note
BST 84231
Producer Alfred Lion
Bobby Hutcherson chronology
Components
(1965)
Happenings
(1967)
Stick-Up!
(1966)
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The Penguin Guide to Jazz

Happenings is an album by the jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, released in 1967 on the Blue Note label. The album contains six compositions by Hutcherson, and one by Herbie Hancock, "Maiden Voyage".

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Hutcherson, except as indicated.

  1. "Aquarian Moon" - 7:45
  2. "Bouquet" - 8:10
  3. "Rojo" - 6:03
  4. "Maiden Voyage" (Hancock) - 5:49
  5. "Head Start" - 5:16
  6. "When You Are Near" - 3:51
  7. "The Omen" - 6:59

Personnel

  • Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone (tracks 1-6), marimba, drums (track 7 only)
  • Herbie Hancock - piano, box full of rocks (track 7 only)
  • Bob Cranshaw - bass
  • Joe Chambers - drums, marimba (track 7 only), triangle (tracks 2, 7), timpani (track 7 only)