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Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live From The Blue Morocco
by Pierre Giroux
Freddie Hubbard was never one to play it safe. Even at a time when jazz was bending in myriad directions--from the structural freedom of Ornette Coleman's harmolodics to the modal explorations of Miles Davis--Hubbard maintained a singular focus on the power of his horn. In the newly unearthed performance On Fire: Live from Blue Morocco, Resonance Records, in conjunction with Record Store Day, has released a deluxe 2CD package that includes new interviews with Bennie Maupin and Kenny Barron, notes ...
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by Jack Kenny
Freddie Hubbard is a conundrum. His style has varied significantly over the years, as though he were unsure of himself at a deep level. There were the Blue Note years, then the funk years, where he gained money and lost credibility. The all-encompassing technique was displayed in so many contexts, with Art Blakey, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy. Hubbard's casting around indicates an unresolved idea of what to do with his gifts. He was, after all, born at ...
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by Thierry De Clemensat
If Resonance Records did not exist, it would have to be invented, for it fills the hearts of jazz lovers with such joy that they eagerly anticipate each new release, especially one as extraordinary as this. On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco is a previously unreleased recording of the legendary jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, captured in 1967 at the Blue Morocco jazz club in the Bronx, New York. Featuring an all-star lineup; Bennie Maupin, Kenny Barron, Herbie ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ensuing decade saw him in several Blue Note outings under his own name and as a side man. He also recorded sets for Atlantic Records and Impulse!. His output ran at about two albums a year through the 1960s. The 1970s saw Hubbard rise from ...
Continue ReadingJackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring to Destination...Out! Revisited
by Stefano Merighi
Rivisitando la vita e la carriera dell'altosassofonista e compositore Jackie McLean, mi viene naturale avvicinarle a quelle di Paul Bley. Entrambi hanno iniziato da ragazzini, conoscendo i maestri e suonando con loro; sia McLean che Bley hanno potuto affinare la propria personalità accanto ai più grandi creatori di jazz (Hawkins, Parker, Mingus, Rollins, Davis, Coleman, tra gli altri..); tutti e due erano spesso al posto giusto nel momento giusto ed hanno sviluppato un carattere indipendente e incurante del mainstream, con ...
Continue ReadingMcCoy Tyner: Time for Tyner
by John Kelman
With the release of the latest batch of Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note reissues comes the opportunity to hear vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson on two sessions that demonstrate just how flexible he is--something that continues to define him to this day on projects like the recently-released SFJazz Collective. But unlike SFJazz, which is a true cooperative ensemble, we're talking about Hutcherson the sideman on the '64 date that would become pianist Andrew Hill's Judgement, and here, on pianist McCoy Tyner's '68 ...
Continue ReadingMcCoy Tyner: Tender Moments
by Donald Elfman
Now 66 years old, McCoy Tyner has made countless albums and become an elder statesman of jazz. He is certainly best known as the pianist in the transformational John Coltrane Quartet of the '60s, but it was with Blue Note recordings like this one from 1967, recently reissued in remastered form, that he revealed his personality as a composer, arranger, and soloist.Tender Moments was one of Tyner's first major explorations of the world of colors and textures available ...
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