Jazz Articles about Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard: The Artist Selects

by Russ Musto
January 28, 2006

Blue Note's The Artist Selects series offers a valuable insight into some of the jazz greats who recorded for the label by having the musicians themselves “select and sequence songs to be reissued on a single disc. In the case of Freddie Hubbard, the choices are especially interesting because they are culled from a particularly diverse and voluminous discography, with only one selection (Kenny Dorham's “Karioka ) replicating the previously assembled Jazz Profiles compilation. The remaining eight numbers, all originals ...

Freddie Hubbard: Four From Freddie

by AAJ Staff
May 10, 2005

By Francis Lo Kee

Freddie Hubbard has led a productive and interesting recording career that has gone through various phases, showing up on revolutionary records of the '60s (with Ornette, Dolphy and Coltrane) and some of the best hard bop, “keeper-of-the-flame sessions, too (as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers). Ready for Freddie (1961) was made while Hubbard was working with Blakey and his playing here is on fire. “Birdlike (a blues in F, later renamed “Byrdlike ...

Freddie Hubbard: Hub Cap (RVG Edition)

by Robert Gilbert
February 24, 2003

As was customary with Blue Note releases during the 1950s and '60s, the names of the musicians performing on Hub Cap are listed on the album’s front cover. The name of Freddie Hubbard, the leader, is--not surprisingly--most prominent. However, the factor that elevates Hub Cap a notch above similarly styled LPs released at the time is the fifth name listed under Hubbard’s: drummer “Philly” Joe Jones.Within a minute of the opening title song, Jones has made his presence ...

Freddie Hubbard: Hub Cap (RVG Edition)

by Richton Guy Thomas
January 26, 2003

Freddie Hubbard brought a beautiful tone and an instinct for swing to Hub Cap. This record came out in 1961, three years before Eric Dolphy's Out To Lunch and four years before Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage : two significant titles in the library of America's improvised music which feature a consequential role by Hubbard.Freddie Hubbard leads a particularly talented sextet on this reissue. Four of the six compositions are Hubbard originals; two numbers were composed by Cedar Walton, ...

Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay

by David Rickert
July 11, 2002

Like Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard's best work was always in the service of others until he signed with Creed Taylor's CTI label. He then released a trio of albums that represents his crowning achievement as a leader. Red Clay finds him in the company of Herbie Hancock, who played a large part in defining jazz fusion, as well as heavyweights like Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, and Lenny White. The title track kicks off the record with a funky ...

Freddie Hubbard: Open Sesame

by Craig Jolley
March 1, 2002

Open Sesame (1960) was Freddie Hubbard’s first record as a leader. If it was his only record it would be legendary, but within two years he had recorded four better ones. What raised the other records above Open Sesame was the drummers: Philly Joe Jones, Elvin Jones, and Louis Hayes. There is nothing wrong with Clifford Jarvis—he swings, he interacts with the other players, and he fits the band’s conservative concept. But on his best records Hubbard fed off his ...

Freddie Hubbard: Fastball

by C. Michael Bailey
June 1, 2001

More Live at the Left Bank from the Hard Bop Trumpeting Dream, Freddie Hubbard.

Recorded April 23, 1967, this Freddie Hubbard recital offers an extended look at the trumpet wunderkind during a recording transitional period. Hubbard was just following his recording for Blue Note (with The Night of the Cookers: Live at Club La Marchal, Vols. 1 & 2, Blue Note 28882, 1965 with releases for Atlantic ( Backlash, Atlantic 1477, 1966, High Blues Pressure, Atlantic 1501, 1967. The urbane ...