![]() Blue Note’s cover art from this period was generally excellent, but I really like the minimalist cover of this particular album. One of the reasons I chose Hub-Tones is probably the cover. You get the picture, these years between 19 were highly productive for Freddie, and all of the above mentioned albums are worth having. Well, I was torn for a while whether I should feature Open Sesame, Ready For Freddie (both released 1 and 2 years prior to Hub-Tones on BlueNote), or one of the two subsequent releases on Impulse, The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard, or The Body And The Soul. He also plays on The Blues And The Abstract Truth, one of my 25 Essential Jazz albums. He has, as my title indicates, played with the Jazz Messengers, but has played with pretty much every well-known Jazz musician of the period, be it John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, you name it. He probably is one of the typical “musician’s musician”. Well, anyway, here we go again: Freddie Hubbardįreddie Hubbard is considered among musicians as one of the trumpet legends. ![]() ![]() Maybe it is because I consider Freddie Hubbard’s albums for example as just a little bit less essential than the artists I’ve written about so far. I’ve a little bit neglecting my Jazz Messengers Mini-Series, don’t really know why. ![]()
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