There’s probably no better memorial to the legacy of legendary producer Michael Cuscuna than the release, expected in June, of a seven-CD set titled Classic Bobby Hutcherson Blue Note Sessions 1963-1970 on the Mosaic Records label. Music from eleven sessions is captured, featuring Hutcherson as both leader and sideman, charting his tremendous musical growth throughout the 1960s.
And Cuscuna shared a more personal involvement with this musician, writing, “We are all very lucky in life to find a few best friends, people with whom we connect on levels of love, empathy, sharing and friendship,” wrote Cuscuna. “Bobby Hutcherson was such a person in my life. Aside from being one of the most forward-thinking musicians in modern jazz and a startlingly original artist on his chosen instrument, his presence defined wisdom, humor and kindness. Bobby and I shared many projects together and a dozen or more close mutual friends, but he was one-of-a-kind. Whenever he played New York, he stayed at my apartment, and we were roommates for a wonderful week.”
Cuscuna, who died in April, co-founded Mosaic Records in 1982 with Charlie Lourie, who at the time was head of marketing for Blue Note
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