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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Montara is one of the great feel-good jazz albums of the 1970s, one of the great Latin jazz albums of the 1970s, and one of the great groove jazz records. Seek it out without hesitation".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

Track listing

All compositions by Bobby Hutcherson except as indicated

"Camel Rise" (George Cables) - 5:35
"Montara" - 4:58
"La Malanga (Se Acabo)" (Rudy Calzado) - 4:17
"Love Song" (Cables) - 5:37
"Little Angel" (Eddie Martinez) - 3:54
"Yuyo" - 6:42
"Oye Como Va" (Tito Puente) - 5:08

Recorded at The Record Plant, Los Angeles, California on August 12 & 14, 1975.

Personnel

Bobby Hutcherson - vibes, marimba
Oscar Brashear, Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Plas Johnson - flute
Ernie Watts, Fred Jackson, Jr. - tenor saxophone, flute
Eddie Cano - piano
Larry Nash - electric piano
Dennis Budimir - guitar
Chuck Domanico, Dave Troncoso - bass
Harvey Mason - drums
Bobby Matos, Johnny Paloma, Victor Pantoja, Ralph MacDonald, Willie Bobo, Rudy Calzado - percussion
Dale Oehler - arranger

References

Bobby Hutcherson discography accessed December 19, 2010
^ Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed December 19, 2010
Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

v t e Bobby Hutcherson
The year(s) indicated apply to the recording(s), not the first release.
Studio albums	The Kicker (1963) Dialogue (1965) Components (1965) Happenings (1966) Stick-Up! (1966) Oblique (1967) Patterns (1968) Total Eclipse (1968) Spiral (1968) Medina (1969) Now! (1969) San Francisco (1970) Head On (1971) Natural Illusions (1972) Cirrus (1974) Linger Lane (1974) Inner Glow (1975) Montara (1975) Waiting (1976) The View from the Inside (1976) Knucklebean (1977) Highway One (1978) Conception: The Gift of Love (1979) Un Poco Loco (1979) Solo / Quartet (1982) Four Seasons (1983) Good Bait (1984) Color Schemes (1985) Cruisin' the 'Bird (1988) Ambos Mundos (1989) Mirage (1991) Enjoy the View (2014)
Live albums	Blow Up (1969) Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (1973) Farewell Keystone (1982) In the Vanguard (1986)
Discography

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)

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