- 180 gram gatefold LP !

- Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original master tape !

- Plated and pressed at RTI !

The Blue Note Tone Poet Series was born out of Blue Note President Don Was' admiration for the exceptional audiophile Blue Note LP reissues presented by Music Matters. Was brought Joe Harley (from Music Matters), a.k.a. the "Tone Poet", on board to curate and supervise a series of reissues from the Blue Note family of labels.

Recorded in 1963, The Kicker was actually vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's first session as a leader for Blue Note, but for reasons lost to time it was shelved, and instead Hutcherson's album Dialogue was released as his debut two years later.

First released in 1999, The Kicker is a sequel to guitarist Grant Green's masterpiece Idle Moments, which was recorded one month earlier with the exact same personnel featuring Green, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Duke Pearson, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Al Harewood.