COMMUNITY HANDBOOK 2012
Houston Street Thursday Afternoon Running from the East River to the Hudson, one of Downtown’s broad boulevards and “Zero” Street in the legendary and still controversial Grid Plan from 1811, Houston Street, at least on Thursday, is the setting of a jazz piece by legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. A cut from the sensual, provocative album View From the Inside, released on the Blue Note label, “Houston Street on Thursday Afternoon” —like the best loving-making— is smooth, tingling, filled with both yearning and allure. I had just moved to East First Street when the album was released in 1976 and often gazed onto Houston Street from my kitchen windows in the back for the next twenty five years either anxious for her arrival or smoking an after-love cigarette into the night. And while this happened not always on Thursdays, life there was on lucky days and nights
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the same sexy, tantalizing satisfaction found in this laid-back jazz piece by perhaps the greatest of jazz vibraphonists, floating “like a raft in a tranquil stream” as it has been described, with Emanuel Boyd on sax, Larry Nash on piano, James Leary III on bass, and Eddie Marshall on
drums. At six and a half minutes, the piece carries us along on a journey of desire. Awarded the Jazz Fellowship Award from the National Endowments for the Arts in 1982, Bobby Hutcherson catches us as the best of music does from the first hutcherson captivating notes of “Houston Street Thursday Afternoon.” And if that opening wail of the saxophone, the soft backbeat on drums, the underlining bass and the pandering notes on the vibraphone don’t get ‘cha…but no way; you’re from Downtown.
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