Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard
Born: Apr 7, 1938 in Indianapolis, IN
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Died: Dec 29, 2008 in Sherman Oaks, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz-Funk
Biography: One of the great jazz trumpeters of all time, Freddie Hubbard formed his sound out of the Clifford Brown/Lee Morgan tradition, and by the early '70s was immediately distinctive and the pacesetter in jazz. However, a string of blatantly commercial albums later in the decade damaged his reputation and, ...Read full biography
Straight Life
Released: 1970
Label: EPIC/ASSOCIATED/LEGACY
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Recorded between trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's better-known classics Red Clay and First Light, Straight Life is actually arguably Hubbard's greatest recording. Hubbard, joined by an all-star group that includes ...Read full review
Red Clay [Bonus Track]
Released: 1970
Label: EPIC/LEGACY
Critics' Rating:
This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On Red Clay, Hubbard combines hard bop's glorious blues-out ...Read full review
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