Bobby Hutcherson/Blue Note Trade Ad

[JSngry]

[captainwrong]

Kind of a weird sentiment, though I've played Now for a lot of non-jazz people who loved it.

[JSngry]

35 years can do that to people!

[AndrewHill]

Three fine albums if I may add. thanks for posting

[JSngry]

This ad was actually page 3, the first page next to the inside front cover. Probably prime "real estate". So BN in '71 must have been believing in Bobby pretty strongly, no?

[AndrewHill]

This ad was actually page 3, the first page next to the inside front cover. Probably prime "real estate". So BN in '71 must have been believing in Bobby pretty strongly, no?

Interestingly enough, just considering the span between the albums being advertised, its roughly two years apart: 66, 68, 71? So lock, stock and barrel, it seems that BN must've thought that Bobby's whole output, roughly speaking, was worth mentioning....interesting!

Just my feeble analysis -_-

[Dan Gould]

This ad was actually page 3, the first page next to the inside front cover. Probably prime "real estate". So BN in '71 must have been believing in Bobby pretty strongly, no?

Interestingly enough, just considering the span between the albums being advertised, its roughly two years apart: 66, 68, 71? So lock, stock and barrel, it seems that BN must've thought that Bobby's whole output, roughly speaking, was worth mentioning....interesting!

Just my feeble analysis -_-

I'm not sure about the timing, but it seems as though about this time, BN was down to Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Booby (and of course a few others) ... maybe at that point there wasn't all that much to push.

[JSngry]

But to my knowledge, BN never took out full page ads in the earlier decades, especially not in such a premium location in the magazine. Their ads were usually single column (or smaller) ads tucked back in the record review section. Sure, that was in the Lion-Wolff days, but still, the size and location of this ad makes it seem to me like Bobby was getting some kind of special "push" by the label.

[JSngry]

...it seems as though about this time, BN was down to Horace Silver, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd and Booby (and of course a few others) ... maybe at that point there wasn't all that much to push.

Another full page ad (this time on page 17) from the 12-6-71 issue:

[Swinging Swede]

How soon things would change. Those were the last Blue Note albums for McGriff, Holmes, Reuben Wilson and The Three Sounds (if you can count it as a Three Sounds album). The next year Grant Green would make his last and Elvin Jones his last released Blue Note album. Hello, Blue Note Hits A New Note.

[Swinging Swede]

Actually it would be interesting to read DB reviews of some of those Blue Note Hits A New Note releases. What did they think about Bobbi Humphrey, Alphonse Mouzon etc? It must have seemed like a pretty quick transition from the Hank and Lee days at the time.