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Freddie Hubbard
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.8762
Freddie Hubbard Album Rankings
1
This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader, in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman.
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2
Straight Lifereally affected me when I first heard it. There is an atmosphere to it - part adventure, part funk, and some semi-normal jazz for the infernal purists.
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3
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard really came into his own during this Blue Note session.
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4
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up on record withJames Spaulding(who doubles on alto and flute) for the first time on this excellent set, with the assistance of pianistHerbie Hancock, bassistReggie Wo
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5
This CD reissue (which augments the original five-song program with alternate takes originally issued on 45s of "Blue Frenzy" and "Mirrors") brings back the first recording Hubbard cut with his own wo
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6
This CD captures the great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard at the age of 48 just before he began to decline. Hubbard is heard in excellent shape on two selections apiece with two separate bands.
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7
Freddie Hubbard's first recording as a leader, Open Sesame features the 22-year old trumpeter in a quintet with tenor saxophonist Tina Brooks, the up-and-coming pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Sam Jones
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8
For his second recording as a leader, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (22 at the time) performs two compositions apiece by Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley, the obscure "I Wished I Knew" and his own "Blues for
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9
Freddie Hubbard is in decent but not quite prime form on this CD; his tone was starting to decline ever so gradually.
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10
For this studio album, Freddie Hubbard expanded his quintet by adding tenor-saxophonist Bennie Maupin, Kiane Zawadi on euphonium and the tuba of Howard Johnson.
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12
Recorded in 1982 by Jeffrey Weber and arranger Allyn Ferguson, this live to two-track digital set showcases Freddie Hubbard in the company of two large bands -- one a brass group, the other a string
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16
The first of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's three Atlantic albums (reissued on a Koch CD in 2000), this excellent set falls between hard bop and the avant-garde, often hinting at both.
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17
God Bless the Child compiles tracks from Freddie Hubbard's three previous MusicMasters label releases, Bolivia, Live at Fat Tuesday's and MMTC.
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19
This is one of Freddie Hubbard's more obscure sessions of the 1960s.
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21
One of a series of albums Hubbard did with arranger Don Sebesky and one of his most popular. Sebesky had a special talent for "sweetening" a record without making it saccharine.
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24
On Hub Cap, his third effort as a leader, Freddie Hubbard sticks to the tried-and-true hard bop formula, which is something of a mixed blessing.
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27
Freddie Hubbard released The Black Angel in the same year as the landmark Miles Davis album Bitches Brew. Its obvious Hubbard wanted to appeal to the emerging crossover rock/jazz crowd of the era.
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28
Another Don Sebesky special, highlighted by Nino Rota's "Godfather" theme and Bix Beiderbecke 's "In A Mist." These CTIs often had cool repertoires.
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29
This two-LP set, which was released in 1979 as part of United Artists' Blue Note reissue series, brought back trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's early album Hub Cap, a sextet session with tenor-saxophonist
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30
Despite some commercial records during the era, Freddie Hubbard was arguably the top trumpeter in jazz during the 1970s and '80s. If you have any doubts, put on this explosive disc.
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32
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up with veteran tenor-saxophonist Harold Land and Hubbard's regular rhythm section of the period (keyboardist Billy Childs, bassist Larry Klein, drummer Steve Houghton
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33
Hubbard meets the Pablo All-Stars, which means mainly guitarist Joe Pass and pianist Oscar Peterson . Hubbard slashes some mighty feisty lines against Peterson's filigreed backdrop.
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39
Given the way Miles Davis sharply criticized Freddie Hubbard in various magazine interviews in the 1970s, it's ironic that this decent but less than essential CD finds Hubbard paying tribute to someo
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41
Solid quartet date with Kenny Barron , Buster Williams and Al Foster.
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44
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard plays three of his originals at this live session with his sextet.
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45
The last of the '60s Blue Notes with a mixed bag of formats from sextet to octet. Joe Henderson , Hank Mobley and Herbie Hancock are among the working guests.
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47
This CD reissues an LP and a half's worth of material recorded by Freddie Hubbard and his sextet (with tenor-saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Billy Childs, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, bassist La
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55
Although rather more firmly in the mainstream than some would wish, this album marks a triumphant return to form for a man whose recording career was thought to be over.
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58
Notable for the presence of then-buzz talents Lew Tabackin on tenor sax and flute and Joanne Brackeen on piano. Plus fine fillet of fluegelhorn from Freddie.
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