Hutcherson, Bobby - Montara (Tone Poet Series)

A high-water mark of Bobby Hutcherson’s 1970s Blue Note output, Montara is a feel-good album that found the vibraphonist conjuring up an intoxicating hybrid of Latin jazz and fusion grooves from the percolating rhythms of ‘La Malanga’, ‘Yuyo’, and ‘Oye Como Va’ to the alluring ‘Montara’ and ‘Love Song’.