Vibist Bobby Hutcherson's first leadership album for Blue Note was The Kicker, recorded in December 1963. Strangely, it wasn't released until 1999 when the tapes were discovered. The album featured several nifty originals, but it's the songbook standard that stands out for me—Lerner and Lowe's If Ever I Would Leave You, from Camelot. The band on the tra…
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