Freddie Hubbard
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Hubbard was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and associated in his youth with various musicians in Indianapolis, including Wes Montgomery and Montgomery’s brothers. Chet Baker was an early influence, although Hubbard soon aligned himself with the approach of Clifford Brown (and his forebears: Fats Navarro and Dizzy Gillespie).
Hubbard’s jazz career began in earnest after moving to New York City in 1958. While there, he worked with Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, J. J. Johnson, Philly Joe Jones, Oliver Nelson, and Quincy Jones, among others. He gained attention while playing with the seminal hard bop ensemble Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, appearing on such albums as Mosaic, Buhaina’s Delight, and Free For All. He left the Messengers in 1964 to lead his own groups and from that time maintained a high profile as a bandleader or featured as a special guest, but never merely a sideman.
Along with two other trumpeters also born in 1938, Lee Morgan (d. 1971) and Booker Little (d. 1961), Hubbard exerted a strong force on the direction of 1960s jazz. He recorded extensively for Blue Note Records: eight albums as a bandleader, and twenty-eight as a sideman. [1] Most of these recordings are regarded as classics. Hubbard appeared on a few early avant-garde landmarks (Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch and John Coltrane’s Ascension), but Hubbard never fully embraced free jazz, though it did influence his playing.
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Red Clay
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Open Sesame
60,626 listeners18 tracks
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Straight Life
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Ready for Freddie
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Spotify playlist Jazz: Bebop, Cool, Swing, Vocal, Fusion, Modal, Stride, Dixieland, Third Stream, Big Band, Hard Bop
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evanisreallyok
What turned me on to Freddie was his playing on Dolphy's Out to Lunch.
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Barcida
Genial!!
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barryvs
First Light is amazing.
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jazzx84
I love Red Clay; I think it's the album he'll always be known for. I also love his freshman outings in the early 1960s. His recording of Jimmy Van Heusen's 'But Beautiful' on the 'Open Sesame' album is purely haunting.
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d1lll1nger
FREDDIE !!!
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JazzIsKing
Ready for Freddie has to be the most underrated jazz album ever. How do more people not recognize its brilliance?
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akrde
I'm ready for Freddie now! :)
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jamesusillxd
Red Clay is amazing
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SoulJazzsterInc
The fact that there is such a hierarchy in jazz is so beyond me. Yes, Miles and Coltrane are geniuses but the fact that you absolutely have to mention them and compare everyone to them because they are supposed to be the greatest thing in jazz annoys me a lot. Yes, Miles obviously explored much more styles than Hubbard but does that mean that is he automatically better at what he does? Is hard bop Miles better than Freddie? Milestones better than Backlash simply because it is Miles Davis? I don't think so, all of this is very subjective. Hubbard is as legitimate as Miles making this kind of music. Period.
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Mezzanine_
first time i heard freddie playing was in Mayden Voyage and i was like "WOW, i gotta know who's that guy!". A year latter i'm listening to Open Sesame and i'm just amazed. He should receive more credit for his contributions to jazz. (sorry for my english)
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I_LOVE_DONUTS
at the end of the day i'd rather hear a Freddie Hubbard solo over a Miles Davis solo, but what does that really matter? [2]
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koolkeef
at the end of the day i'd rather hear a Freddie Hubbard solo over a Miles Davis solo, but what does that really matter?
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bonnie_jamie
Ready For Freddie........ Wow.
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cards4life
giving "Open Sesame" another listen...smooth as silk, perfectly arranged with impeccable timing...just gorgeous!
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darmik89
I think that technically he was better from Miles Davis as regards the playing of the trumpet,but musically Miles was better.
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hippiedrow
I really enjoy his album 'First Light'.
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ChriSThaaRippeR
Волшебный саксофонист. Слушать одно удовольствие.
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rockxcasbah
Red Clay is monumental.
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