thanks for celebrating Freddie Hubbard, Steve, and highlighting Crisis. Nobody played brass as hard as he did, in contexts expanding from Blakey’s to include Ornette and Dolphy masterpieces, the fantastic run of Blue Note albums with the Hancock-Shorter-Hill-Spaulding-Rivers coterie (not to ignore the great rhythm players on those recordings), CTI classics, even his later Columbia efforts like Super Blue and the situations for him arranged by David Weiss. I was fortunate to spend time with Hubbard, mid and late career. A complex man with a big bold expressive soul.
I first heard Freddie as a member of J.J. Johnson's sextet on the "J.J.INC" Columbia album from 1960 followed by his version of "All of Nothing at All" on his first Blue Note LP OPEN SESAME of the same year and that was it for me. In his prime, his virtuosity took your breath away. What a player!
thanks for celebrating Freddie Hubbard, Steve, and highlighting Crisis. Nobody played brass as hard as he did, in contexts expanding from Blakey’s to include Ornette and Dolphy masterpieces, the fantastic run of Blue Note albums with the Hancock-Shorter-Hill-Spaulding-Rivers coterie (not to ignore the great rhythm players on those recordings), CTI classics, even his later Columbia efforts like Super Blue and the situations for him arranged by David Weiss. I was fortunate to spend time with Hubbard, mid and late career. A complex man with a big bold expressive soul.
I first heard Freddie as a member of J.J. Johnson's sextet on the "J.J.INC" Columbia album from 1960 followed by his version of "All of Nothing at All" on his first Blue Note LP OPEN SESAME of the same year and that was it for me. In his prime, his virtuosity took your breath away. What a player!