Freddie Hubbard
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| Freddie Hubbard | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Frederick Dewayne Hubbard |
| Born | April 7 1938 |
| Origin | Image:Flag of the United States.svg Indianapolis, Indiana, USA |
| Genre(s) | Jazz Bebop Hard bop Post bop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician Bandleader |
| Instrument(s) | Trumpet |
| Years active | 1950's – 1992 |
| Label(s) | Atlantic, Columbia, CTI, Blue Note |
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (born April 7 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 60's up until today. In 2006, The National Endowment for the Arts honored Hubbard with its highest honor in jazz, the NEA Jazz Masters Award, along with a $25,000 fellowship award.
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[edit] Biography
Hubbard started playing the mellophone and trumpet in his school band, studying at the Jordan Conservatory with the principal trumpeter of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In his teens Hubbard worked locally with brothers Wes and Monk Montgomery and worked with bassist Larry Ridley and saxophonist James Spaulding. When he was 20 he moved to New York in 1958, and began playing with some of the best jazz players of the day including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy , J. J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones. In June of 1960 Hubbard recorded his solo debut Open Sesame when he was 22 years old with saxophonist Tina Brooks, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Clifford Jarvis. Hubbard recorded his second album, Goin' Up, with saxophonist Hank Mobley and a rhythm section consisting of Tyner, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones, and his third album, Hub Cap, with trombonist Julian Priester and saxophonist Jimmy Heath. Four months later, in August 1961, he made his first Blue Note Records recording and one of his most famous albums Ready For Freddie, which was also his first collaboration with Wayne Shorter. In 1961 he joined Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, (replacing Lee Morgan) and remained with Blakey until 1966, leaving to form several small groups of his own, which would feature pianist Kenny Barron and drummer Louis Hayes among other musicians.
It was during this time that he began to develop his own sound, distancing himself from the early influences of Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan, and won the Downbeat jazz magazine "New Star" award on trumpet.[1]
Throughout the 1960s Hubbard played as a sidemen on some of the most important albums from that era, including Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, and John Coltrane's Ascension.[2] He recorded extensively for Blue Note Records in the late 1950s and 1960s: eight albums as a bandleader, and twenty-eight as a sideman.[3] Most of these recordings are regarded as classics.
Freddie Hubbard achieved his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of albums for Creed Taylor and his record label CTI Records. Although his early 1970's jazz albums Red Clay, First Light, Straight Life, and Sky Dive were particularly well received and considered among his best works, the albums he recorded later in the decade were bashed by critics for there commercial appeal. First Light won a 1972 Grammy Award (included pianist, Herbie Hancock, guitarists Eric Gale and George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette on drums, Airto Moreira on percussion, and Richard Wyands on acoustic piano to back him. A masterpiece.[4] During 1970-1974 Freddie Hubbard was the biggest star of the CTI label, even overshadowing Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, and George Benson.[5] Columbia's VSOP: The Quintet, album was recorded from two live performances, one at the Hearst Greek Theatre, University of California, Berkeley, on July 16, 1977, the other at the San Diego Civic Theatre, July 18, 1977. Musicians in this landmark performance were Herbie Hancock on keyboards, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Tony Williams on drums, Ron Carter on bass, and Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano saxophones.
In the 1980s Hubbard was again leading his own jazz group, attracting very favorable notices for his playing at concerts and festivals in the USA and Europe, often in the company of Joe Henderson, playing a repertory of hard-bop and modal-jazz pieces. Hubbard has played at the legendary Monterey Jazz Festival in 1980, and in 1989 with Bobby Hutcherson. He played with Woody Shaw, recording with him in 1985, and two years later recorded Stardust with Benny Golson. In 1988 he teamed up once more with Blakey at an engagement in Holland, from which came Feel The Wind. In 1990 he appeared in Japan headlining an American-Japanese concert package which also featured Elvin Jones, Sonny Fortune, pianists George Duke and Benny Green, bass players Ron Carter, and Rufus Reid, with jazz and popular music singer Salena Jones. He also performed at the Warsaw Jazz Festival in which an album was recorded Live At The Warsaw Jazz Festival (Jazzmen 1992).
Following a long setback of health problems and a serious lip injury in 1992 where he ruptured his upper lip and subsequently developed an infection, Hubbard is again playing and recording occasionally, even if not at the high level that he set for himself during his earlier career [6] His best records rank with the finest in his field.[7]
[edit] Selected discography
| Year | Title | Genre | Label | Billboard | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Live at Fat Tuesday | Jazz | Music Masters | #16 | |
| 1989 | Times Are Changin' | Jazz | Blue Note | #19 | |
| 1980 | Skagly | Jazz | Columbia | #14 | |
| 1979 | The Love Connection | Jazz | Columbia | #15 | |
| 1978 | Bundle of Joy | Jazz | Columbia | #8 | |
| 1978 | Super Blue | Jazz | Columbia | #6 | |
| 1975 | Polar AC | Jazz | CTI | #11 | |
| 1975 | Liquid Love | Jazz | Columbia | #3 | |
| 1974 | High Energy | Jazz | Columbia | #4 | |
| 1973 | Sky Dive | Jazz | CTI | #2 | |
| 1971 | First Light | Jazz | CTI | #9 | |
| 1970 | Straight Life | Hard bop, Fusion | CTI | #5 | |
| 1970 | Red Clay | Hard bop, Fusion | CTI | #14 | |
| 1969 | The Hub of Hubbard | Jazz | Verve | #15 | |
| 1962 | Backlash | Hard bop, Avant-garde | Atlantic | #21 |
[edit] References
- ^ 2006 Fellowship Recipient: Freddie Hubbard
- ^ Larkin, Colin. The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, page 2018-2019, (1995) - ISBN 1561591769
- ^ Freddie Hubbard: The Blue Note Years 1960-1965
- ^ Allmusic.com: First Light
- ^ Yanow, Scott. Jazz on Record: The First Sixty Years, Backbeat Books, page 821, (2003) - ISBN 0879307552
- ^ .Freddie Hubbard at All About Jazz
- ^ Yanow, Scott. Jazz: A Regional Exploration, Greenwood Press, page 184, (2005) - ISBN 0313328714
[edit] External links
- Bio at Jazztrumpetsolos.com
- Freddie Hubbard's Website
- Bio and Selected Recordings at Grove Music Online
- Interview with Downbeat Magazine
- The Freddie Hubbard Discographyde:Freddie Hubbard
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