RIP Freddie Hubbard

Oh man, Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies. Just to recite some of the canonical works he played on:

Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth
Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz
John Coltrane, Ascension & Africa/Brass
Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch
Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage
Bill Evans, Interplay
Wayne Shorter, Speak No Evil
Andrew Hill, Compulsion

RIP.

aw

Sing Me a Song of Songmy is awesome and terrifying.

RIP big guy

let's not forget these canonical works:

ready for freddie
hub-tones
backlash
red clay
straight life

that's a pretty impressive body of work in itself

a number of years back i was at a louis hayes trio gig in nyc and some dude in back was (affectionately) heckling him the whole time. shouting "play that one lick again!" and "play some little sunflower!". of course it was freddie hubbard. :D

RIP!

RIP

aw, dang, that is too bad. a ton of great stuff, whether as sideman or leader ... one i got recently is "Night of the Cookers" a live double disc with him and Lee Morgan trading off. Super loose and rangy but it definitely cooks! "Red Clay" is a good one from the early fusion days ... And yeah, "Ready For Freddie" is awesome. Still a bunch I haven't heard. RIP, Freddie!

Rest in peace, Freddie. Have listened to you a lot.

He's really a guy who reached some kind of Paul Chambers-level of ubiquity in the late 50s/early 60s. Seems to have loved (and been good at!) playing all types of music, from Ornette to Oliver Nelson.

:(

I picked up a slew of Freddie Hubbard CDs this year.

R.I.P.

this sucks a bunch -- incredible sound

in his later years i heard he had tragically lost his ability to play, pretty much

bad news, RIP.

interview about that: http://www.shout.net/~jmh/articles/freddie01.html

Gaah, RIP!

i really didnt see this coming already

i have this one freddie hubbard live album on 32 Jazz and it's crazy. it's a quartet and the songs like fifteen minutes long with FH blowing for most of that time, high and loud. i've never heard another trumpet player do that.

version of freddie replacing lee morgan for 'moanin'

he was 24 @ the time

eurgh i could never believe how smooth he would sound going note to note - unbelievably hard on a brass instrument and to him it sounded totally natural

RIP. I have one of his album covers on the wall of my dining room:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2216/2371899120_8c877c450d.jpg?v=0

A shame - I love "Red Clay".

damn. RIP

it's sad to be reaching the point where a lot of great musicians of that generation are passing away. red clay was one of the recordings that got me into jazz, and his playing on maiden voyage, blues and the abstract truth, and speak no evil was key for me around that time too.

plus his "little sunflower" was the source of this deep house classic:

here's hubbard's original:

tragic.

RIP. All good things...

That's a shame about his lip; was just reading about that in the Times' obit. Again, such a great player.

Damn, another good man down. Even more depressing in conjunction with that article about his lip problems, about which I was unaware. I'd play Breaking Point or Olé in tribute if I wasn't currently away from home.

RIP

Very, very sad. Awesome musician.

e-mail from my dad:

Well Dizzy was my man but Freddie Hubbard was second- Now gone but not forgotten-Last time I saw him was the early eighties at the Hartford Jazz Society-Audience was going crazy-- Ashley

My favorite trumpet player after Miles. This is really, really sad.

it's nuts that he was 20 when he made his recording debut with Coltrane ... always kind of amazing to me how young some of those guys got started.

McCoy Tyner was twenty-one when Trane hired him! (Right now I'm reading Ben Ratliff's Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, and going back through my stacks--haven't gotten to the sessions with Hubbard yet)(but I always liked him, even when I saw him playing like "Birdland" with a pickup band

Phil Schaap is doing a little tribute right now.

appropriately, here's a show from 25 years ago tonight ... http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=114

Now they're playing a cover of "Cold Turkey"!

terrible

had to go sometime but still

Yeah, 70 seems young. Plus "Cold Turkey" = WANT.

plenty people go at 70, but that doesn't mean it aint no tragedy when it happens

Yeah, what I mean. Especially these days.

:-/

not sayin it is in his case, but too many people eatin mcdonalds

http://www.jazz.com/dozens/brecker-picks-hubbard

Cool. I was just reading how Randy Brecker left Blood, Sweat and Tears to join Horace Silver, and got Lew Soloff to replace him.

One time back in the nineties I got in an elevator at The Drummers Collective (before they dropped the "Drummers") and there were a bunch of musicians going to a Betty Carter rehearsal, a bunch of younger cats and Freddie Hubbard. I was standing there with my electric bass next to a guy with the upright and Freddie gave me the once over and I never wanted to get off an elevator faster. Later on I made up a story of how I said something about how I said something to him comparing him unfavorably to Miles Davis, but my friend said "Man, you didn't say that to Freddie Hubbard!" and indeed I hadn't.

Sorry if that was a suzy-like anecdote, slight namedrop with no real punchline.

Non-sequiturs don't need a proper punchline to be effective

(Hope that didn't sound like a putdown - 'twasn't meant that way at all)

Thanks, cause at this point non-sequiturs is all I got.

Man, listening to all the Freddie Hubbard tributes this week on the radio I kept thinking "Oh yeah, I got that tune!" "That one too!" And I don't own a single Freddie Hubbard album. He played on so many classics I guess I was kind of taking him for granted.

Well, I guess I just bought Red Clay, which has "Cold Turkey."

I also heard an interview with him. He was pretty well-spoken and thoughtful and had a nice deep voice. He talked about how when he came to New York he developed a scowl so people would leave him alone- the same scowl I saw on the elevator!