Biography
It was during this time that he began to develop his own sound, distancing himself from the early influences of Clifford Brown and Morgan, and won the Downbeat jazz magazine "New Star" award on trumpet.
Throughout the 1960s Hubbard played as a sideman on some of the most important albums from that era, including, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil. He recorded extensively for Blue Note Records in the late 1950s and 1960s: eight albums as a bandleader, and twenty-eight as a sideman. free jazz of the '60s, he appeared on several landmark albums in the genre: Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, and John Coltrane's Ascension. Though Hubbard never fully embraced the free jazz of the '60s, he appeared on several landmark albums in the genre: Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, and John Coltrane's Ascension.
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 1970s jazz albums Red Clay, First Light, Straight Life, and Sky Dive were particularly well received and considered among his best work, the albums he recorded later in the decade were bashed by critics for their commercialism. First Light won a 1972 Grammy Award and included pianists Herbie Hancock and Richard Wyands, guitarists Eric Gale and George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Jack DeJohnette, and percussionist Airto Moreira. In 1994, Freddie, collaborating with Chicago jazz vocalist/co-writer Catherine Whitney, had lyrics set to the music of First Light.
During 1970-1974 Hubbard was the biggest star of the CTI label, overshadowing Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, and George Benson. 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 joining the trumpeter for this landmark performance were the members of the mid-sixties line-up of the Miles Davis Quintet (except the leader): Herbie Hancock on keyboards, 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 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 at which Live At The Warsaw Jazz Festival (Jazzmen 1992) was recorded.
Discography
Year | Title | Notes | Label | Billboard |
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1992 | Live at Fat Tuesday | Jazz | Music Masters | # - |
1991 | Bolivia | Jazz | Music Masters | # - |
1989 | Times Are Changin' | Jazz | Blue Note | # - |
1982 | Ride Like the Wind | Jazz | Elektra/Asylum Records | # - |
1981 | Outpost | Kenny Barron, Al Foster, Buster Williams | Enja Records | # - |
1980 | Skagly | Jazz | Columbia | # - |
1979 | The Love Connection | Jazz | Columbia | # - |
1978 | Super Blue | Jazz | Columbia | #131 |
1977 | Bundle of Joy | Jazz | Columbia | #149 |
1976 | Windjammer | Jazz | CTI | #85 |
1975 | Polar AC | Jazz | CTI | #167 |
1975 | Liquid Love | Jazz | Columbia | #149 |
1974 | Keep Your Soul Together | Jazz | Columbia | #186 |
1974 | High Energy | Jazz | Columbia | #153 |
1974 | Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert | Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette | CTI | - |
1973 | Sky Dive | Jazz | CTI | #165 |
1971 | First Light | Jazz | CTI | - |
1971 | Sing Me a Song of Songmy | Experimental | Atlantic | - |
1970 | Straight Life | Hard bop, Fusion | CTI | - |
1970 | Red Clay | Hard bop, Fusion | CTI | - |
1970 | The Black Angel | Hard bop | Atlantic | - |
1969 | The Hub of Hubbard | Jazz | MPS/BASF | - |
1969 | A Soul Experiment | Soul Jazz | Atlanic | - |
1968 | High Blues Pressure | Hard bop | Atlantic | - |
1966 | Backlash | Hard bop, Avant-garde | Atlantic | - |
1965 | Speak No Evil | Hard bop, with Wayne Shorter | Blue Note | - |
1965 | Blue Spirits | Post-bop, Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1964 | Breaking Point | Post-bop, Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1963 | The Body & the Soul | Post-bop, Hard bop | Impulse! | - |
1962 | Hub-Tones | Post-bop, Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1962 | The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard | Post-bop, Hard bop | Impulse! | - |
1962 | Caravan | Hard bop | Impulse! | - |
1961 | Ready for Freddie | Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1961 | Minor Mishap | Hard bop | Black Lion | - |
1961 | Here to Stay | Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1961 | Hub Cap | Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1960 | Ballads | Bop | Blue Note | - |
1960 | Goin' Up | Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
1960 | Open Sesame | Hard bop | Blue Note | - |
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