Artist: Freddie Hubbard
Genre(s):
Other
Jazz
Discography:
The Night Of The Cookers (CD2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
The Night Of The Cookers (CD1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Breaking Point
Year: 1991
Tracks: 7
Born to Be Blue
Year: 1982
Tracks: 5
One of the majuscule jazz trumpeters of all meter, Freddie Hubbard formed his sound out of the Clifford Brown/Lee Morgan tradition, and by the early '70s was straight off distinctive and the pacemaker in jazz. However, a twine of blatantly commercial albums by and by in the tenner damaged his reputation and, just when Hubbard, in the early '90s (with the deaths of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis), seemed perfectly suited for the role of vet master transcript, his chops started causation him unplayful troubles.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Hubbard played early on with Wes and Monk Montgomery. He affected to New York in 1958, roomed with Eric Dolphy (with whom he recorded in 1960), and was in the groups of Philly Joe Jones (1958-1959), Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, and J.J. Johnson, before touring Europe with Quincy Jones (1960-1961). He recorded with John Coltrane, participated in Ornette Coleman's Unfreeze Jazz (1960), was on Oliver Nelson's classic Blues and the Abstract Truth record album (highlighted by "Stolen Moments"), and started transcription as a leader for Blue Note that same year. Hubbard gained renown playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1961-1964) side by side to Wayne Shorter and Curtis Fuller. He recorded Ascension with Coltrane (1965), Out to Lunch (1964) with Eric Dolphy, and Maiden Voyage with Herbie Hancock, and, later on a catamenia with Max Roach (1965-1966), he lED his own quintuple, which at the meter commonly featured altoist James Spaulding. A glary trumpeter with a beautiful tone on flügelhorn, Hubbard fared well in freer settings but was always basically a voiceless bebop stylist.
In 1970, Freddie Hubbard recorded 2 of his finest albums (Bolshie Clay and Straight Life) for CTI. The followup, Offset Light (1971), was really his nigh popular date, featuring Don Sebesky arrangements. But later on the nimbus of the CTI years (during which producer Creed Taylor did an proficient line of balancing the artistic with the approachable), Hubbard made the mistake of signing with Columbia and transcription one flop subsequently some other; Windjammer (1976) and Sprinkle (a slimly later elbow grease for Fantasy) ar low points. However, in 1977, he toured with Herbie Hancock's acoustic V.S.O.P. Quintet and, in the 1980s, on recordings for Pablo, Blue Note, and Atlantic, he showed that he could give his former heights (even if much of the jazz world had given up on him). But by the late '80s, Hubbard's "personal problems" and increasing unreliableness (non exhibit up for gigs) started to really hurt him, and a few old age later his once-mighty proficiency started to badly waver. Freddie Hubbard's fans john inactive certainly enjoy his many recordings for Blue Note, Impulse, Atlantic, CTI, Pablo, and his low gear Music Masters sets.
