Mid-70s works from vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson (Cirrus, Linger Lane, The View from Inside, Montara, Waiting, Highway One, Knucklebean)

 

From discogs:

Robert Hutcherson

Profile:  American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.  Born January 27, 1941, Los Angeles, California, USA Died August 15, 2016, Montara, California, USA.  Nephew of Jazz trumpeter Ernie Figueroa.

His album Highway One, from 1978, absolutely knocked it out of the ballpark for me, though others might enjoy the earlier works.  This was the culmination of a nice string of instrumental fusiony works.

Later (by 1979 actually) he reverted back to the traditional acoustic jazz one might have heard one or two decades previously as on Herbie Mann albums, like on Spiral (1979) and Conception: The Gift of Love (1979) foreshadowing the tragic later 80s abandonment of fusion and electric jazz.  To his credit at least he didn't dabble in the commercialese funk / disco style of the day.  

As a whole his discography is pretty remarkable, beginning in 1965 with Dialogue (aged 24) all the way through the eighties with the 1-2 albums per year until he finally falters, 30 years later, in the mid-90s in his mid-fifties, passing away at the age of 75 in 2016, RIP.

Consider Bouquet:

From the earlier Linger Lane, the gorgeously rich sounds of Manzanita: