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Bobby Hutcherson is nothing short of a legend. One of the defining vibraphonists of his generation, he has been intermittently represented on record, with a twelve-year run on Blue Note starting in the mid-sixties and regular releases on Landmark through the eighties. Hutcherson is most famous for a series of sideman appearances on some of the defining modern jazz albums of the 1960s: Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Jackie McLean’s One Step Beyond and others by Grant Green, Andrew Hill, and Tony Williams. These albums were instrumental in carving a path between the post-bop and avant-garde movements, and it was Hutcherson who first discovered an approach on the vibes within the new sound. There isn’t a young player alive who holds a pair of mallets that doesn’t owe Hutcherson a great debt.

His own sessions, however, always split the difference between past and future, keeping at least one foot firmly in the jazz tradition which had influenced him. And he has never given up on adding his integral voice to a collective: For Sentimental Reasons is Hutcherson's first album as a leader in eight years, much of the intervening time taken up by his work with the SFJazz Collective.