FreddieHubbard_Tribute

Thank you to Reverend Dr. Calvin Butts and the
Abyssinian Baptist Church for sustaining the
sensibilities of the African-American community
in life and when the final passage has been made.
Thanks are also due for Abyssinian’s acknowledgement
of the importance of Freddie Hubbard’s
music, as well as the music of all jazz musicians.
Special thanks to Paul Coates of Black Classic Press
for his generousity.
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Discography
God has wrought many things out of
oppression. He has endowed his creatures
with the capacity to create—and from this
capacity has flowed the sweet songs of
sorrow and joy that have allowed man
to cope with his environment and many
different situations.
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story
God of has life’s wrought difficulties, many and if things you think out for of a
oppression. moment, you He will has realize endowed that they his creatures take the
with hardest the capacity realities of to life create—and and put them from into this
capacity music, only has flowed to come the out sweet with some songs new of
sorrow hope or and sense joy of that triumph. have allowed man
to cope with his environment and many
Martin Luther King Jr.
different situations.
Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story
of life’s difficulties, and if you think for a
moment, you will realize that they take the
hardest realities of life and put them into
music, only to come out with some new
hope or sense of triumph.
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Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (Prestige Mosaic (Blue Note 1961)
1982)
Buhaina’s Delight (Blue Note 1961)
Born To Be Blue (Pablo 1982)
Discography
Three Blind Mice (Volume 1and Volume
Back To Birdland (Real Time 1983) 2) (Blue Note 1962)
Sweet Return (Atlantic 1983)
Free for All (Blue Note 1964)
Soul Finger (Limelight, 1965)
Life Flight (Blue Note 1987)
Art Blakey and the All-Star Jazz
Times Keystone Are Changin’ Bop: (Blue Sunday Note 1989) Night (Prestige Mosaic (Blue Note 1961)
Messengers (RCA (FR) 1982)
1982)
Buhaina’s Delight (Blue Note 1961)
Topsy: Standard Book (Triloka 1990)
Bolivia Born (Music To Masters Be Blue 1991) (Pablo 1982) With Jimmy Heath
Live At Fat Tuesday’s (Music Masters Jam Gems: Live Three At The Blind Left Mice Bank (Volume 1and Volume
1992) Back To Birdland (Real Time 1983) (Label M 2001)1965 2) (Blue recording Note 1962)
Live At Sweet The Warsaw Return Jazz (Atlantic Festival 1983) With Oscar Free Peterson for All (Blue Note 1964)
(Jazzmen 1992)
Face To Face Soul (Pablo Finger 1982) (Limelight, 1965)
Life Flight (Blue Note 1987)
MMTC (Music Masters 1995)
With Woody Shaw
Blues For Miles 1992 recording
Double Take Art (Blue Blakey Note 1985) and the All-Star Jazz
(Evidence Times 1996) Are Changin’ (Blue Note 1989)
With John Messengers Coltrane (RCA (FR) 1982)
Above Topsy: And Beyond Standard (Metropolitan Book (Triloka 1999) 1990) Africa/Brass (Verve 1961)
1982 recording Bolivia (Music Masters 1991) Ascension (Impulse! With Jimmy 1965) Heath
Live At Fat Tuesday’s (Music Masters Jam Gems: Live At The Left Bank
New Colors (Hip Bop 2001)
With Herbie Hancock
1992)
(Label M 2001)1965 recording
Empyrean Isles (Blue Note 1964)
With Art Blakey and
Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 1965)
the Jazz Live Messengers
At The Warsaw Jazz Festival VSOP: The Quintet With (Columbia Oscar Peterson 1977)
Roots and (Jazzmen Herbs (Blue 1992) Note 1961)
Face To Face (Pablo 1982)
MMTC (Music Masters 1995)
Blues For Miles 1992 recording
(Evidence 1996)
Above And Beyond (Metropolitan 1999)
1982 recording
New Colors (Hip Bop 2001)
With Art Blakey and
the Jazz Messengers
Roots and Herbs (Blue Note 1961)
With Woody Shaw
Double Take (Blue Note 1985)
With John Coltrane
Africa/Brass (Verve 1961)
Ascension (Impulse! 1965)
With Herbie Hancock
Empyrean Isles (Blue Note 1964)
Maiden Voyage (Blue Note 1965)
VSOP: The Quintet (Columbia 1977)

Selected
Obituary
As a Leader
Open Sesame (Blue Note 1960)
Goin’ Up (Blue Note 1960)
Hub Cap (Blue Note 1961)
Ready For Freddie (Blue Note 1961)
The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard
(Impulse! 1962)
Hub-Tones (Blue Note 1962)
Here To Stay (Blue Note 1962)
The Body And Soul Of Freddie
Hubbard (Impulse! 1963)
Breaking Point (Blue Note 1964)
Blue Spirits (Blue Note 1965)
The Night Of The Cookers - Live
At Club La Marchal (Volume 1 and
Volume 2) (Blue Note 1965)
Backlash (Atlantic 1967)
High Pressure Blues (Atlantic 1968)
The Black Angel (Atlantic 1969)
The Hub Of Hubbard (MPS 1970)
Red Clay (CTI 1970)
Straight Life (CTI 1970)
Sing Me A Song (Atlantic 1971)
First Light (CTI 1972)
Sky Dive (CTI 1973)
In Concert, Vol. 1 (CTI 1973)
In Concert, Vol. 2 (CTI 1973)
Keep Your Soul Together (CTI 1974)
Polar AC (CTI 1974)
High Energy (Columbia 1974)
Liquid Love (Columbia 1975)
Gleam (Sony 1975)
Windjammer (Columbia 1976)
Bundle Of Joy (Columbia 1977)
Super Blue (Columbia 1978)
Here To Stay (Blue Note 1979)
1961/1962 recordings
The Love Connection (Columbia
1979)
Skagly (Columbia 1980)
Live At The North Sea Jazz Festival
(Pablo 1980)
Mistral (Liberty 1980)
Outpost (Enja 1981)
Splash (Fantasy 1981)
Rollin’ (MPS 1981)
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was born
April 7, 1938 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He
was the youngest of six children born to
Earmon Hubbard and Delphia White.
A child prodigy of brass, Freddie first
played mellophone, tuba, and French
horn, eventually, choosing trumpet and
flugelhorn as the main instruments of his
musical career. He studied at the Jordan
Conservatory at Butler University with
Max Woodbury, the principal trumpeter of
the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra,
As a teenager, Freddie worked and
recorded with the Montgomery Brothers
(Wes, Monk, and Buddy), and while still in
high school, he founded his jazz band, the
Jazz Contemporaries, with bassist Larry
Ridley and saxophonist James Spaulding.
At the age of 20, Freddie moved to New
York City and quickly established himself
as one of the bright young trumpeters on
the scene, astonishing fans and critics alike
with his unique style, depth, and maturity.
During the late 1950’s, he played with
veteran jazz artists such as Philly Joe
Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric
Dolphy, and Quincy Jones, with whom he
also toured Europe during the early sixties.
At age 22, on the recommendation of Miles
Davis, he recorded Open Sesame, his solo
debut for Blue Note Records. That album,
featuring Tina Brooks and McCoy Tyner,
set the stage for his meteoric rise on the
jazz scene. Within the debut next album, 10 months, Takin Off, and co
Freddie recorded his on second Empyrean album, Isles and Maiden
Goin Up, with Hank and Mobley Wayne’s and seminal McCoy recording
Tyner, and a third, Hub No Evil. Cap, with He was Julian also featured
Priester and Jimmy classic Heath. groundbreaking Four months 1960’s
later, in August of 1961, Ornette he Coleman’s made what Free Jazz, O
many consider his masterpiece, Nelson’s Blues Ready and for the Abstrac
Freddie, which was Eric also Dolphy’s his first Blue Out Note to Lunch, an
collaboration with Wayne Coltrane’s Shorter. Ascension. That
same year, he joined Art Blakey’s Jazz
Messengers (replacing Freddie Lee Morgan). achieved his greatest p
success in the 1970’s with a ser
While earning a reputation crossover as albums a hardblowing
young lion, Records. Freddie developed His early 70’s album
on Atlantic a
his own sound, distancing CTI, Red himself Clay, from First Light, and
the early influence of Life Clifford were particularly Brown and well-rece
Miles Davis, and won and Down First Light Beat’s won “New a GRAMM
Star” award on trumpet. Award He in remained 1972. with
Art Blakey until 1964, leaving to form his
own group, which over Freddie the next returned few years to the acoustic
featured Kenny Barron bop and arena Louis with Hayes. his 1977 tour w
debut V.S.O.P. album, debut quintet, album, Takin Off, which Takin and Off, teamed contin an
on Empyrean Isles and Mai
Throughout the
on
‘60s,
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in bands
and of Maiden the 1960’s Vo
and Wayne’s seminal record
led by such greats
and
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seminal
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No Evil. He was also featu
was also a significant
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presence
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classic groundbreaking 196
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Wayne Shorter, beginning
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Nelson’s Nelson’s Blues and Blues the and Abstract the Abs Tr
Eric Dolphy’s Eric Dolphy’s Out to Lunch, Out to Lunch and J
Coltrane’s Coltrane’s Ascension. Ascension.

debut album, Takin Off, and continuing
on Empyrean Isles and Maiden Voyage,
and Wayne’s seminal recording, Speak
No Evil. He was also featured on four
classic groundbreaking 1960’s sessions:
Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, Oliver
won bands, attracting very favorable
notices for his performances at concert
halls and festivals around the world,
often in the company of Joe Henderson,
playing a repertory of hard bop and
modal-jazz pieces. He also collaborated
with younger jazz artists. He began
teaching clinics and doing residences at
various colleges. In 2006, he received
the prestigious National Endowment of
the Arts Jazz Master Award, one of the
highest honor bestowed upon a jazz artist.
to play in the jazz idiom and the most
influential.
Freddie is survived by his wife of more
than 30 years, Mrs. Brigitte Hubbard;
one son, Mr. Duane Hubbard (Valerie);
Nelson’s debut album, Blues and Takin the Off, Abstract and continuing Truth, with won fellow bands, trumpet attracting legend very Woody favorable
Eric on Dolphy’s Empyrean Out Isles to Lunch, and Maiden and John Voyage, Shaw notices for a for series his performances of albums the at concert Blue
with younger jazz artists. He began
An teaching exceptionally clinics talented and doing virtuoso residences at
a brother, to play Earmon in the jazz Hubbard, idiom and Jr.; the two most
grandchildren, influential. D’Kary and Maliq
Coltrane’s and Wayne’s Ascension. seminal recording, Speak Note halls and and Timeless festivals labels. around the world, performer, various colleges. Freddie’s In rich 2006, full tone he received is never Hubbard; a host of nieces and nephews;
debut No Evil. album, He Takin was also Off, featured and continuing
four
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and
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the prestigious the prestigious National National Endowment Endowment of of Freddie Freddie is survived is survived by his wife by his of wife more of more
the Arts the Jazz Arts Master Jazz Master Award, Award, one of the one of the than 30 than years, 30 Mrs. years, Brigitte Mrs. Brigitte Hubbard; Hubbard;
highest highest honor bestowed honor bestowed upon a upon jazz artist. a jazz artist. one son, one Mr. son, Duane Mr. Hubbard Duane Hubbard (Valerie); (Valerie);
a brother, a brother, Earmon Earmon Hubbard, Hubbard, Jr.; two Jr.; two
John Shaw for Shaw a series for a of series albums of albums for the Blue for the Blue An exceptionally An exceptionally talented talented virtuoso virtuoso grandchildren, grandchildren, D’Kary D’Kary and Maliq and Maliq
Note and Note Timeless and Timeless labels. labels.
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lost, even lost, when even he when plays he fast plays passages. fast passages. As and As numerous and numerous family, family, friends, friends, and fans. and fans.