Search - Artist/Band: Freddie Hubbard

• Name: Freddie Hubbard
• Birthday: 04/07/1938
• Birth Place: Indianapolis, IN
• Decades Active: 1960,1970,1980,1990,2000
• Genre: Jazz
• Styles: Fusion, Hard Bop, Jazz-Funk, Post-Bop, Soul-Jazz
• Moods: Confident, Earthy, Energetic, Exuberant, Fiery, Freewheeling, Passionate, Playful, Sophisticated, Stylish, Ambitious, Boisterous, Brassy, Dramatic, Earnest, Elaborate, Literate, Lively, Provocative, Quirky, Rambunctious, Rousing, Searching, Slick, Sprawling, Stately, Street-Smart, Uncompromising, Uplifting, Urgent, Visceral, Witty, Wry

Title	Release
On the Real Side (70th Birthday Celebration)	06/10/2008
Vision Redescription of His Story	11/08/2006
The Jazz Masters	10/03/2006
Artist Selects	10/04/2005
Anthology: The Soul-Jazz Fusion Years 66-82	05/10/2005
Trios	12/14/2004
Jazz Moods: Hot	06/15/2004
Sing Me a Song of Songmy/Echoes of Blue	07/31/2001
New Colors	04/24/2001
Jazz Collection	04/03/2001
God Bless the Child [International]	2001
A Soul Experiment/Autobiography	10/17/2000
The Gold Collection	05/30/2000
Gettin' It Together	01/25/2000
New Best One	09/22/1999
Above & Beyond	02/05/1999
Topsy	01/02/1999
Back to Birdland [Records]	11/01/1998
Priceless Jazz	09/22/1998
God Bless the Child [Music Master]	05/19/1998
The Greatest Years at CTI	1998
Jazz Profile	09/23/1997
Ballads	07/01/1997
This Is Jazz, Vol. 25 WA	05/05/1997
Hub Art: A Celebration of the Music of Freddie Hubbard	02/20/1996
The Complete Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw Sessions WA	08/15/1995
Back to Birdland [Drive]	09/06/1994
Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon	08/19/1994
A Tribute to Miles	07/15/1994
Blues for Miles	04/03/1992
The Best of Freddie Hubbard [Pablo]	01/15/1992
Double Exposure: Freddie Hubbard & Louis Armstrong	1992
The Best of Freddie Hubbard [Blue Note/Capitol]	12/09/1991
Riding High, Solo Brothers and Professor Jive	08/28/1991
Come to Brazil	1991
Bolivia	12/13/1990
Topsy: Standard Book [Peter Pan]	12/10/1989
Feel the Wind	11/1988
Eternal Triangle with Woody Shaw WA	06/11/1987
Life Flight	01/23/1987
Salute to Pops, Vol. 2	1987
Double Take	11/21/1985
Sweet Return WA	06/13/1983
Rose Tattoo	1983
Back to Birdland	08/1982
Born to Be Blue	12/14/1981
A Little Night Music	11/29/1981
Outpost	03/16/1981
Mistral	09/15/1980
The Love Connection	02/1979
Echoes of Blue	1976
Polar AC WA	1974
Keep Your Soul Together	10/1973
Sky Dive WA	10/1972
First Light WA	09/14/1971
Sing Me a Song of Songmy	01/21/1971
Straight Life WA	11/16/1970
Red Clay WA	01/27/1970
The Best of Freddie Hubbard [Columbia]	01/27/1970
The Hub of Hubbard WA	12/09/1969
A Soul Experiment	1969
The Black Angel WA	1969
High Blues Pressure	11/1967
Backlash	10/19/1966
Blue Spirits WA	02/19/1965
Breaking Point WA	05/07/1964
The Body & the Soul	03/08/1963
Hub-Tones	10/10/1962
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard	07/02/1962
Ready for Freddie	08/21/1961
Minor Mishap WA	08/02/1961
Here to Stay	04/09/1961
Hub Cap	04/09/1961
Goin' Up	11/06/1960
Open Sesame	06/19/1960
Freddie Hubbard at Jazz Jamboree Warszawa

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, just when Hubbard, in the early '90s (with the deaths of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis), seemed perfectly suited for the role of veteran master, his chops started causing him serious troubles.

Born and raised in Indianapolis, Hubbard played early on with Wes and Monk Montgomery. He moved to New York in 1958, roomed with Eric Dolphy (with whom he recorded in 1960), and was in the groups of Philly Joe Jones (1958-1959), Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, and J.J. Johnson, before touring Europe with Quincy Jones (1960-1961). He recorded with John Coltrane, participated in Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz (1960), was on Oliver Nelson's classic Blues and the Abstract Truth album (highlighted by "Stolen Moments"), and started recording as a leader for Blue Note that same year. Hubbard gained fame playing with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (1961-1964) next to Wayne Shorter and Curtis Fuller. He recorded Ascension with Coltrane (1965), Out to Lunch (1964) with Eric Dolphy, and Maiden Voyage with Herbie Hancock, and, after a period with Max Roach (1965-1966), he led his own quintet, which at the time usually featured altoist James Spaulding. A blazing trumpeter with a beautiful tone on flügelhorn, Hubbard fared well in freer settings but was always essentially a hard bop stylist.

In 1970, Freddie Hubbard recorded two of his finest albums (Red Clay and Straight Life) for CTI. The follow-up, First Light (1971), was actually his most popular date, featuring Don Sebesky arrangements. But after the glory of the CTI years (during which producer Creed Taylor did an expert job of balancing the artistic with the accessible), Hubbard made the mistake of signing with Columbia and recording one dud after another; Windjammer (1976) and Splash (a slightly later effort for Fantasy) are low points. However, in 1977, he toured with Herbie Hancock's acoustic V.S.O.P. Quintet and, in the 1980s, on recordings for Pablo, Blue Note, and Atlantic, he showed that he could reach his former heights (even if much of the jazz world had given up on him). But by the late '80s, Hubbard's "personal problems" and increasing unreliability (not showing up for gigs) started to really hurt him, and a few years later his once-mighty technique started to seriously falter. Freddie Hubbard's fans can still certainly enjoy his many recordings for Blue Note, Impulse, Atlantic, CTI, Pablo, and his first Music Masters sets. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide