Medina in its currently issued form is a disc by jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...

. It is composed of two sessions recorded for the Blue Note

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 label. The first, consisting of tracks 7-11, was recorded in 1968 but not released on vinyl until 1979, under the title "Spiral." The second session, recorded with the same personnel and consisting of the first 6 tracks, was first released on vinyl in 1980 under the title "Medina," which gives its name to this CD collection.

Track listing

1. "Avis" - 6:41
2. "Comes Spring" - 3:20
3. "Dave's Chant" (Cowell
   Stanley Cowell
   Stanley Cowell is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Harold Land, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz...
   
   ) - 5:16
4. "Orientale" (Cowell) - 5:51
5. "Medina" (Chambers
   Joe Chambers
   Joe Chambers is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre...
   
   ) - 10:55
6. "Ungano" (Chambers) - 8:02
7. "Ruth" (Chambers) - 7:50 Bonus track on CD
8. "The Wedding March" (Cowell) - 3:51 Bonus track on CD
9. "Poor People's March" (Land
   Harold Land
   Harold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to...
   
   ) - 6:15 Bonus track on CD
10. "Spiral" - 6:13 (Chambers) Bonus track on CD
11. "Visions" - 3:49 Bonus track on CD

All compositions by Bobbie Hutcherson except as indicated

Personnel

• Bobby Hutcherson
  Bobby Hutcherson
  Bobby Hutcherson is a jazz vibraphone and marimba player. His vibraphone playing is suggestive of the style of Milt Jackson in its free-flowing melodicism, but his sense of harmony and group interaction is thoroughly modern...
  
   - vibraphone, marimba
• Harold Land
  Harold Land
  Harold de Vance Land was an American hard bop and post-bop tenor saxophonist. Land developed his hard bop playing with the Max Roach/Clifford Brown band into a personal, modern style. His tone was strong and emotional, yet displayed a certain fragility that made him easy to...
  
   - saxophone
• Joe Chambers
  Joe Chambers
  Joe Chambers is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. He attended the Philadelphia Conservatory for one year. In the 1960s and 70s Chambers gigged with many high-profile artists such as Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Lou Donaldson, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Giuffre...
  
   - drums
• Stanley Cowell
  Stanley Cowell
  Stanley Cowell is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson, Clifford Jordan, Harold Land, Sonny Rollins and Stan Getz...
  
   - piano
• Reggie Workman
  Reggie Workman
  Reginald "Reggie" Workman is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey....
  
  - bass