Jazz Articles about Freddie Hubbard

Meet Freddie Hubbard

by Craig Jolley
December 29, 2008

From the 1995-2003 archive: This article first appeared at All About Jazz in May 2001. New Colors (Hip Bop Records)I met David Weiss a couple of years ago. He's from North Texas State. He had a rehearsal band [New Jazz Composers Octet] in New York, and he had been writing out a lot of my compositions and arranging them. He said he'd like to get together and have me play some of my material with the group. ...

Freddie Hubbard: Stardust & Clubhouse

by Stuart Broomer
June 8, 2008

John Coltrane Stardust (RVG Edition) Prestige-Concord 2007 Dexter Gordon Clubhouse Blue Note 2008

Freddie Hubbard is part of the most concentrated group of trumpet talents in jazz history, born on Apr. 7th, 1938, just five days after Booker Little and three months before Lee Morgan. His brassy sound, confident attack and ...

Andrew Hill: Compulsion!!!!!

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 24, 2007

Finalmente la Blue Note si è decisa pubblicare questo album, tra i più visionari di Hill e del jazz degli anni ’60. Sembra incredibile, ma ci ha messo quarant’ anni la prestigiosa label discografica a tirar fuori dai suoi archivi questo capolavoro, su cui è gravato sin d’ora un silenzio inspiegabile. Importanti e tutti degni di nota sono i principi formali, di organizzazione sonora e disposizione timbrica, che sono alla base di questo stellare, stratosferico progetto: metri oscillanti ad libitum; ...

Freddie Hubbard: Super Blue

by Tom Greenland
December 9, 2007

Freddie Hubbard's Super Blue, finally available on CD, is a minor classic--overlooked, perhaps, because it lies in the long shadow of the titan trumpeter's earlier output, or because it was recorded in the middle of a lackluster phase at Columbia. But Blue is a late-summer sleeper. Reassembling some of the best talent from his CTI dates--Joe Henderson (tenor), Hubert Laws (flute), Ron Carter (bass), Jack DeJohnette (drums) and George Benson (guitar), plus Kenny Barron (acoustic and electric ...

Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life

by Matt Leskovic
August 8, 2007

Creed Taylor's genre-bending CTI Records held the precarious position as the dominant jazz label during the 1970s--the decade during which the music “died. CTI was a contradiction in itself; it had as much to do with the promotion of straight-ahead, hard-swinging jazz as with spawning smoothed-out, easy-listening records that bordered on muzak. For every album as classy as Jim Hall's Concierto (CTI, 1975) there is a dud like Bob James's BJ4 (CTI, 1977), which comes perilously close to disco. The ...

Duke Pearson: The Right Touch

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2007

Solista di secondo piano, dietro i numerosi mostri sacri che negli anni sessanta popolavano la scuderia Blue Note, Duke Pearson ha spesso fornito a questi ultimi il proprio contributo di pianista e soprattutto di arrangiatore. Diventato per un certo periodo produttore della prestigiosa etichetta, ha inciso una manciata di album a proprio nome che ne confermarono lo stile pianistico discreto, ideale per l’accompagnamento, e la vena di arrangiatore brillante e disinvolto. In questo The Right Touch, inciso nel settembre 1967 ...

Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay

by Norman Weinstein
September 20, 2006

This album has certainly had a sad history. It was left in the Blue note vaults for fourteen years. Then it was reissued in a double-vinyl set with Hub Cap, a coupling that doesn't reveal either session in the best light.Then a decade later, it finally was released as a single album. And that brings us to the present version, on which occasion the devout Bob Blumenthal seems to say in his liner notes (well, he hedges around the fact) ...