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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
By Adam Ventress
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Format:Audio CD
Freddie Hubbbard is in some respects an unsung hero of jazz. He made key contributions to a remarkable number of classic jazz recordings in the early/mid 60s, including several albums with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Ornette Coleman's 'Free Jazz', Eric Dolphy's 'Out To Lunch,' Wayne Shorter's 'Speak No Evil,' and, for me, containing his best work of all, Herbie Hancock's 'Takin Off,' 'Empyrean Isles,' and 'Maiden Voyage.'
This, however is one of several albums he recorded as leader, on Blue Note, and is widely regarded as his best.
The album begins with a typical Hubbard performance on 'You're My Everything;' his sound is bright with a lovely warm tone and he plays lyrical phrases and fast flowing runs with equal skill. The title track is the most powerful performance on the album, a real tour de force, with Hubbard displaying great agility and range.
The standout track though, has to be 'Lament For Booker' dedicated to the late Booker Little who had been a contemporary trumpeter and friend of Hubbard's. The sound is unusual, with James Spaulding playing a backdrop on flute, over which Hubbard plays a poignantly beautiful and obviously heartfelt lament, featuring some of his most lyrical playing on record.
I would recommend this album to anyone who has appreciated Hubbard's playing on other artists' records, (and the likelihood is, if you have much of a jazz collection, he will faeture somewhere), or Hubbard fans who have missed this one so far. A very good album.
This, however is one of several albums he recorded as leader, on Blue Note, and is widely regarded as his best.
The album begins with a typical Hubbard performance on 'You're My Everything;' his sound is bright with a lovely warm tone and he plays lyrical phrases and fast flowing runs with equal skill. The title track is the most powerful performance on the album, a real tour de force, with Hubbard displaying great agility and range.
The standout track though, has to be 'Lament For Booker' dedicated to the late Booker Little who had been a contemporary trumpeter and friend of Hubbard's. The sound is unusual, with James Spaulding playing a backdrop on flute, over which Hubbard plays a poignantly beautiful and obviously heartfelt lament, featuring some of his most lyrical playing on record.
I would recommend this album to anyone who has appreciated Hubbard's playing on other artists' records, (and the likelihood is, if you have much of a jazz collection, he will faeture somewhere), or Hubbard fans who have missed this one so far. A very good album.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By GlynLuke
TOP 500 REVIEWER
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
There`s a moment 49 seconds into the alternate take of the title track which made my heart skip a beat. Freddie Hubbard (1938-2010) does a musical backflip as he begins his solo that defies belief. The fact that it may have been unintentional (though I think the young whippersnapper knew exactly what he was doing) is neither here nor there, it`s this and the way he resolves it that takes your breath away.
It`s all too easy to take Hub (as he will hereon in be dubbed) for granted, so many records of this classic era does he appear on, usually as a sideman, but after hearing this wonderful, varied music, there`s no further excuse for undervaluing
this splendid, fluent, ubiquitous trumpeter.
Both versions of Hub-Tones are terrific, and this is one reissue from Blue Note (remastered beautifully as usual by Rudy Van Gelder) that benefits from its extras, if only for that heartstopping moment on track 7!
Lament For Booker is something special, an almost ten-minute ballad tribute from one great trumpeter to another, Booker Little, who died far too young - in 1961 at the age of 23, a year before this was recorded. Some lovely flute from James Spaulding helps no end.
The band Hub assembled for this sparkling date is a vintage one, and a mildly offbeat one too, with the mercurial Herbie Hancock uncharacteristically energetic (but boy, could Herbie swing when he decided to) and an occasionally pedantic Clifford Jarvis on drums. A name I barely knew, and, though inventive, not really a patch on the likes of Tyner, Elvin Jones or Joe Chambers, though he has his moments.... Read more ›
It`s all too easy to take Hub (as he will hereon in be dubbed) for granted, so many records of this classic era does he appear on, usually as a sideman, but after hearing this wonderful, varied music, there`s no further excuse for undervaluing
this splendid, fluent, ubiquitous trumpeter.
Both versions of Hub-Tones are terrific, and this is one reissue from Blue Note (remastered beautifully as usual by Rudy Van Gelder) that benefits from its extras, if only for that heartstopping moment on track 7!
Lament For Booker is something special, an almost ten-minute ballad tribute from one great trumpeter to another, Booker Little, who died far too young - in 1961 at the age of 23, a year before this was recorded. Some lovely flute from James Spaulding helps no end.
The band Hub assembled for this sparkling date is a vintage one, and a mildly offbeat one too, with the mercurial Herbie Hancock uncharacteristically energetic (but boy, could Herbie swing when he decided to) and an occasionally pedantic Clifford Jarvis on drums. A name I barely knew, and, though inventive, not really a patch on the likes of Tyner, Elvin Jones or Joe Chambers, though he has his moments.... Read more ›
By Malc B.
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Classic 1960s Blue Note jazz with Freddie Hubbard, a real trumpet master. Excellent sound with re-mastering by Rudy Van Gelder.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By D. H. Rimmer
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
If you're familiar with Freddie's playing and haven't got this one then remedy the omission right away.This was Freddie's most productive and inspired period and virtually all that he put down on tape is priceless.
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