Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard studied at Arsenal Technical High School and Butler University. The field of work recorded is jazz. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are jazz. Works named in the authority record are Backlash, The Hub of Hubbard, The Black Angel, Red Clay and Open Sesame. Distinctions recorded are NEA Jazz Masters.

• Name — Freddie Hubbard • Birth Name — Frederick Dewayne Hubbard • Born — 7 April 1938 • Birthplace — Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. • Died — 29 December 2008 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Genre — * Jazz • hard bop • post-bop • neo-bop • jazz fusion • Occupation — * Musician • bandleader • composer • Instrument — * Trumpet • flugelhorn • cornet • French horn • mellophone • Years Active — 1958–2008 • Label — * Atlantic • Columbia • CTI • Blue Note • Website — freddiehubbardmusic.com

Hubbard attended Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, Indiana, and while in the school band started playing various instruments, including the mellophone, the French horn, and tuba, as well as the trumpet, which would become his main focus. Forming his first band, the Jazz Contemporaries, he played at George's Bar on Indiana Avenue, and, in his teens, also worked locally with brothers Wes and Monk Montgomery, and worked with bassist Larry Ridley and saxophonist James Spaulding. Trumpeter Lee Katzman, former sideman with Stan Kenton, recommended that Hubbard take trumpet lessons at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music (now the Jordan College of the Arts at Butler University) with Max Woodbury, principal trumpeter of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In 1958, at the age of 20, Hubbard moved to New York and began playing with some of the best jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy, J. J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones. On June 19, 1960, Hubbard made his first record as a leader, Open Sesame, at the beginning of his contract with Blue Note Records, with saxophonist Tina Brooks, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Clifford Jarvis. Six days later, he returned the favor to Brooks and recorded with him on True Blue.

In December 1960, Hubbard was invited to play on Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, after Coleman heard him performing with Don Cherry. In May 1961, Hubbard played on Olé Coltrane, John Coltrane's final session for Atlantic Records. Coltrane also hired Hubbard, Eric Dolphy and Art Davis, who all appeared on Olé, to record Africa/Brass, Coltrane's first album with Impulse!, which was begun just after Olé. In August 1961, Hubbard recorded Ready for Freddie (Blue Note), which was also his first collaboration with saxophonist Wayne Shorter. Hubbard became Shorter's bandmate when he replaced Lee Morgan in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later in 1961. He played on more than 10 live and studio recordings with Blakey during one of the most acclaimed eras of the Jazz Messengers, including Caravan, Ugetsu, Mosaic, and Free for All. In all, during the 1960s, he recorded eight studio albums as a bandleader for Blue Note, and more than two dozen as a sideman. Hubbard remained with Blakey until 1966, leaving to form the first of several small groups of his own, which featured, among others, his Blue Note associate James Spaulding, pianist Kenny Barron and drummer Louis Hayes. This group recorded for Atlantic. It was during this time that Hubbard 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 (1961), Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch! (1964), Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage (1965), and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil (1966). Hubbard was described as "the most brilliant trumpeter of a generation of musicians who stand with one foot in 'tonal' jazz and the other in the atonal camp". Though he never fully embraced the free jazz of the 1960s, he appeared on two of its landmark albums: Coleman's Free Jazz (1961) and Coltrane's Ascension (1966), as well as on Sonny Rollins's "new thing" track "East Broadway Run Down" (on the 1966 album of the same name), with Elvin Jones and Jimmy Garrison.

• Illustration — Hubbard with DJ Harry Abraham of WHAM, Rochester, c. 1978 Hubbard achieved his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of albums for Creed Taylor and his record label CTI Records, overshadowing Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, and George Benson. Although his early 1970s jazz albums Red Clay (1970), Straight Life (1970), First Light (1971), and Sky Dive (1972) were particularly well received and considered among his best work, the albums he recorded later in the decade were attacked 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, Hubbard, collaborating with Chicago jazz vocalist/co-writer Catherine Whitney, had lyrics set to the music of First Light. In 1977, Hubbard joined the all-star V.S.O.P. band, which also featured Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Wayne Shorter. All of the band's members except Hubbard were members of the mid-1960s Miles Davis Quintet. Several live recordings of this group were released as V.S.O.P, The Quintet, Tempest in the Colosseum (all 1977) and V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1979). Hubbard's trumpet playing was featured on the track "Zanzibar" from the 1978 Billy Joel album 52nd Street (the 1979 Grammy Award winner for Best Album). The track ends with a fade during Hubbard's performance. An unfaded version was released on the 2004 Billy Joel boxed set My Lives.

• Illustration — Hubbard at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, 1977 In the 1980s, Hubbard was again leading his own jazz group – this time with Billy Childs and Larry Klein, among others, as members – attracting favorable reviews, playing at concerts and festivals in the US and Europe, often in the company of Joe Henderson, playing a repertory of hard bop and modal jazz pieces. Hubbard played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1980 and in 1989 (with Bobby Hutcherson). He and Woody Shaw recorded two albums as co-leaders for Blue Note and played live concerts together from 1985 to 1987. In 1987, he was a co-leader with Benny Golson on the Stardust album. In 1988, Hubbard again teamed up with Blakey at an engagement in the Netherlands, from which came Feel the Wind. In 1988, Hubbard played with Elton John, contributing trumpet and flugelhorn and trumpet solos on the track "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters (Part Two)" for John's Reg Strikes Back album. In 1990, Hubbard appeared in Japan headlining an American-Japanese concert package that also featured Elvin Jones, Sonny Fortune, pianists George Duke and Benny Green, bass players Ron Carter, and Rufus Reid, with jazz vocalist Salena Jones. Hubbard also performed at the Warsaw Jazz Festival, at which Live at the Warsaw Jazz Festival (Jazzmen 1992) was recorded. Following a long setback of health problems and a serious lip injury in 1992, when he subsequently developed an infection, Hubbard was again playing and recording occasionally, even if not at the level he set for himself during his earlier career. His best records ranked with the finest in his field.

On December 29, 2008, Hubbard died in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, from complications caused by a heart attack he suffered on November 26. Hubbard's body was cremated, with his ashes given to his family.

• Recording date — Title — Label — Year released — Notes • 1960–06 — Open Sesame — Blue Note — 1960 • 1960–11 — Goin' Up — Blue Note — 1961 • 1961–04 — Hub Cap — Blue Note — 1961 • 1961–08 — Groovy!/Minor Mishap — Fontana/Black Lion — 1989 • 1961–08 — Ready for Freddie — Blue Note — 1962 • 1962–07 — The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard — Impulse! — 1963 • 1962–10 — Hub-Tones — Blue Note — 1963 • 1962–12 — Here to Stay — Blue Note — 1976 — [2LP] The Blue Note Re-Issue Series • 1963–03, 1963-05 — The Body & the Soul — Impulse! — 1964 • 1964–05 — Breaking Point! — Blue Note — 1964 • 1965–04 — The Night of the Cookers — Blue Note — 1965 — Live • 1965–06 — Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank with Jimmy Heath — Label M — 2001 — Live • 1965–02, 1966–03 — Blue Spirits — Blue Note — 1967 • 1966–10 — Backlash — Atlantic — 1967 • 1967–04 — Fastball: Live at the Left Bank — Hyena — 2005 — Live • 1967–11 — High Blues Pressure — Atlantic — 1968 • 1968–12, 1969–01 — A Soul Experiment — Atlantic — 1969 • 1969–05 — The Black Angel — Atlantic — 1970 • 1969–12 — The Hub of Hubbard — MPS — 1970 • 1969–12 — Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 — Blue Note — 2009 — Live • 1970–01 — Red Clay — CTI — 1970 • 1970–07, 1970–08 — Straight Life — CTI — 1971 • 1970–11 — Sing Me a Song of Songmy with İlhan Mimaroğlu — Atlantic — 1971 • 1971–09 — First Light — CTI — 1971 • 1972–10 — Sky Dive — CTI — 1973 • 1973–03 — Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One — CTI — 1973 — Live • 1973–03 — In Concert Volume Two with Stanley Turrentine — CTI — 1973 — Live • 1973–10 — Keep Your Soul Together — CTI — 1974 • 1974–04, 1974–05 — High Energy — Columbia — 1974 • 1975–03 — Gleam — CBS/Sony — 1975 — Live • 1975–03, 1975–04 — Liquid Love — Columbia — 1975 • 1976 — Windjammer — Columbia — 1976 • 1977 — Bundle of Joy — Columbia — 1977 • 1978–03, 1978–04 — Super Blue — Columbia — 1978 • 1979–02, 1979–03 — The Love Connection — Columbia — 1979 • 1979–12 — Skagly — Columbia — 1980 • 1980–07 — Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival — Pablo — 1980 — Live • 1980–09 — Mistral — East World (Japan)/Liberty — 1981 • 1981–03 — Outpost — Enja — 1981 • 1981–05 — Rollin — MPS — 1982 — Live • 1981–06 — Ride Like the Wind — Elektra/Asylum — 1982 • 1981? — Splash — Fantasy — 1981 • 1981–11 — Keystone Bop: Sunday Night with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson — Prestige — 1982 — Live • 1981–11 — Keystone Bop Vol. 2: Friday & Saturday with Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson — |Prestige — 1996 — Live • 1981–12 — Born to Be Blue — Pablo — 1982 • 1982–06 — Above & Beyond — Metropolitan — 1999 — Live • 1982–08 — Back to Birdland — Real Time — 1983 • 1983–06 — Sweet Return — Atlantic — 1983 • 1983–12 — The Rose Tattoo — Baystate — 1984 • 1985–11 — Double Take with Woody Shaw — Blue Note — 1985 • 1987–01 — Life Flight — Blue Note — 1987 • 1987–06 — The Eternal Triangle with Woody Shaw — Blue Note — 1987 • 1988–10, 1988–11 — Feel the Wind with Art Blakey — Timeless — 1989 • 1989? — Times Are Changing — Blue Note — 1989 • 1989–12 — Topsy – Standard Book — Alfa — 1990 • 1990–12, 1991–01 — Bolivia — MusicMasters — 1991 • 1991–10 — At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles — Starburst — 2000 — Live • 1991–12 — Live at Fat Tuesday's — MusicMasters — 1992 — Live • 1992–12 — Blues for Miles — Alfa — 1992 • 1994–08, 1995–01 — MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon — MusicMasters — 1995 • 2000–10 – 2000–12 — New Colors — Hip Bop — 2001 • 2007–12 — On the Real Side — Times Square — 2008 • 1967 — On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco — Resonance Records — 2025 — Live Compilation • Polar AC (CTI, 1975) - rec. 1971–73

Sortable table with main artist alphabetically as primal order. • Main artist — Title — Year recorded — Label — Year released • Manny Albam — The Soul of the City — 1966 — Solid State — 1966 • Carl Allen and Manhattan Projects — Piccadilly Square — 1989 — Timeless — 1993 • Roberto Ávila & Sarava — Come to Brazil — |1989 — Sonet — 1989 • George Benson — The Other Side of Abbey Road — 1969 — A&M/CTI — 1970 • Walter Benton — Out of this World — 1960 — Jazzland — 1960 • Art Blakey — Mosaic — 1961 — Blue Note — 1962 • Art Blakey — Buhaina's Delight — 1961 — Blue Note — 1963 • Art Blakey — A Jazz Hour with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Blues March — 1961 — Jazz Hour — 1995 • Art Blakey — Three Blind Mice — 1961–62 — United Artists — 1962 • Art Blakey — Caravan — 1962 — Riverside — 1963 • Art Blakey — Ugetsu — 1963 — Riverside — 1963 • Art Blakey — Kyoto — 1964 — Riverside — 1966 • Art Blakey — Free for All — 1964 — Blue Note — 1965 • Art Blakey — Golden Boy — 1963 — Colpix — 1963 • Art Blakey — Soul Finger — 1965 — Limelight — 1965 • The Big Apples — Autumn Leaves — 1989 — Pony Canyon — 2001 • Tina Brooks — True Blue — 1960 — Blue Note — 1960 • Kenny Burrell — God Bless the Child — 1971 — CTI — 1971 • George Cables — Cables' Vision — 1979 — Contemporary — 1980 • Betty Carter — Droppin' Things — 1990 — Verve — 1990 • Paul Chambers — Go — 1959 — Vee-Jay — 1959 • Ornette Coleman — Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation — 1960 — Atlantic — 1961 • John Coltrane — Olé Coltrane — 1961 — Atlantic — 1961 • John Coltrane — Africa/Brass — 1961 — Impulse! — 1961 • John Coltrane — Ascension — 1965 — Impulse! — 1966 • Richard Davis — Muses for Richard Davis — 1969 — MPS — 1970 • Eric Dolphy — Outward Bound — 1960 — New Jazz — 1960 • Eric Dolphy — Out to Lunch! — 1964 — Blue Note — 1964 • Kenny Drew — Undercurrent — 1960 — Blue Note — 1961 • Charles Earland — Leaving This Planet — 1973 — Prestige — 1974 • Booker Ervin — Booker 'n' Brass — 1967 — Pacific Jazz — 1967 • Bill Evans — Interplay — 1962 — Riverside — 1963 • Joe Farrell — Sonic Text — 1979 — Contemporary — 1980 • Curtis Fuller — Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone — 1960 — Warwick — 1961 • Curtis Fuller — Soul Trombone — 1961 — Impulse! — 1961 • Curtis Fuller — Cabin in the Sky — 1962 — Impulse! — 1962 • Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson — The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 — 1980 — Pablo — 1980 • Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry and Oscar Peterson — The Alternate Blues — 1980 — Pablo — 1980 • Benny Golson — Take a Number from 1 to 10 — 1960–61 — Argo — 1961 • Benny Golson — Pop + Jazz = Swing — jazz part also released as Just Jazz! — 1962 — Audio Fidelity — 1962 • Benny Golson — Time Speaks — 1982 — Baystate — 1983 • Benny Golson — Stardust — 1987 — Denon — 1987 • Dexter Gordon — Doin' Allright — 1961 — Blue Note — 1961 • Dexter Gordon — Clubhouse — 1965 — Blue Note — 1979 • Dexter Gordon — Generation — 1972 — Prestige — 1973 • Dexter Gordon — The Other Side of Round Midnight — 1985 — Blue Note — 1986 • Slide Hampton — Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty — 1959 — Strand — 1959 • Slide Hampton — Sister Salvation — 1960 — Atlantic — 1960 • Slide Hampton — Drum Suite — 1962 — Epic — 1964 • Herbie Hancock — Takin' Off — 1962 — Blue Note — 1962 • Herbie Hancock — Empyrean Isles — 1964 — Blue Note — 1964 • Herbie Hancock — Maiden Voyage — 1965 — Blue Note — 1965 • Herbie Hancock — Blow-Up — 1966 — MGM — 1967 • Herbie Hancock — V.S.O.P. — 1976 — Columbia — 1977 • Herbie Hancock — The Quintet — 1977 — Columbia — 1977 • Herbie Hancock — Tempest in the Colosseum — 1977 — CBS/Sony — 1977 • Herbie Hancock — V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky — 1979 — CBS/Sony — 1979 • Herbie Hancock — Round Midnight (soundtrack) — 1985 — Columbia — 1986 • Jimmy Heath — The Quota — 1961 — Riverside — 1961 • Jimmy Heath — Triple Threat — 1961 — Riverside — 1962 • Joe Henderson — Big Band — 1996 — Verve — 1997 • Andrew Hill — Pax — 1965 — Blue Note — 2006 • Andrew Hill — Compulsion!!!!! — 1965 — Blue Note — 1967 • Bobby Hutcherson — Dialogue — 1965 — Blue Note — 1965 • Bobby Hutcherson — Components — 1965 — Blue Note — 1966 • Bobby Hutcherson — Knucklebean — 1977 — Blue Note — 1977 • Bobby Hutcherson — Highway One — 1978 — Columbia — 1978 • Milt Jackson — Sunflower — 1972 — CTI — 1973 • Milt Jackson — Goodbye— trumpet on "S.K.J." only — 1972 — CTI — 1974 • Billy Joel — 52nd Street — trumpet on "Zanzibar" only — 1978 — Columbia — 1978 • Elton John — Reg Strikes Back — 1987–88 — Rocket/Mercury — 1988 • J. J. Johnson — J.J. Inc. — 1960 — Columbia — 1961 • Quincy Jones — I Dig Dancers — 1960 — Mercury — 1961 • Quincy Jones — The Quintessence — 1961 — Impulse! — 1962 • Quincy Jones — Golden Boy — 1964 — Mercury — 1964 • Quincy Jones — I/We Had a Ball — 1964–65 — Limelight — 1965 • Quincy Jones — Walking in Space — 1969 — A&M/CTI — 1969 • Quincy Jones — Gula Matari — 1970 — A&M — 1970 • Chaka Khan — Echoes of an Era — 1981–82 — Blue Note — 1982 • John Lewis — Essence — 1960–62 — Atlantic — 1965 • Mel Lewis — Mel Lewis and Friends — 1976 — A&M/Horizon — 1977 • Kirk Lightsey — Temptation — 1991 — Timeless — 1991 • Jeff Lorber — Water Sign — 1979 — Arista — 1979 • Ronnie Mathews — Doin' the Thang! — 1963 — Prestige — 1964 • Jackie McLean — Bluesnik — 1961 — Elektra/Musician — 1962 • The Modern Jazz Quartet — MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration — 1992–93 — Atlantic — 1994 • Wes Montgomery — Fingerpickin — 1957–58 — Pacific Jazz — 1958 • Wes Montgomery — Road Song — 1968 — A&M — 1968 • Hank Mobley — Roll Call — 1960 — Blue Note — 1961 • Alphonse Mouzon — By All Means — 1980 — Pausa — 1980 • Oliver Nelson — The Blues and the Abstract Truth — 1961 — Impulse! — 1961 • Cecil Payne — Cerupa — 1993 — Delmark — 1995 • Duke Pearson — Dedication!/Minor Mishap (Hubbard) — 1961 — Prestige/Black Lion — 1970/1989 • Duke Pearson — Sweet Honey Bee — 1966 — Blue Note — 1967 • Duke Pearson — The Right Touch — 1967 — Blue Note — 1968 • Oscar Peterson — Face to Face — 1982 — Pablo — 1982 • Sam Rivers — Contours — 1965 — Blue Note — 1967 • Max Roach — Drums Unlimited — 1965–66 — Atlantic — 1965 • Sonny Rollins — East Broadway Run Down — 1966 — Impulse! — 1966 • Rufus — Numbers — 1979? — ABC — 1979 • Poncho Sanchez — Cambios — 1991 — Concord Picante — 1991 • Lalo Schifrin — Once a Thief and Other Themes — 1965 — Verve — 1965 • Don Sebesky — Giant Box — 1973 — CTI — 1973 • Wayne Shorter — Wayning Moments — 1961 — Vee-Jay — 1962 • Wayne Shorter — Speak No Evil — 1964 — Blue Note — 1966 • Wayne Shorter — The Soothsayer — 1965 — Blue Note — 1979 • Wayne Shorter — The All Seeing Eye — 1965 — Blue Note — 1966 • Leon Thomas — A Piece of Cake — 1980 — Palcoscenico — 1980 • Stanley Turrentine — Sugar — 1970 — CTI — 1970 • Stanley Turrentine — More Than a Mood — 1992 — MusicMasters — 1992 • McCoy Tyner — Together — 1978 — Milestone — 1979 • McCoy Tyner — Quartets 4 X 4 — on three tracks as part of one quartet — 1980 — Milestone — 1980 • Cedar Walton — Soundscapes — 1980 — Columbia — 1980 • Randy Weston — Uhuru Afrika — 1960 — Roulette — 1961 • Randy Weston — Blue Moses — 1972 — CTI — 1972 • V.A. — One Night with Blue Note Preserved — 1985 — Blue Note — 1985

• 1981 – Studiolive (Sony) • 1985 – One Night with Blue Note • 2004 – Live at the Village Vanguard (Immortal) • 2005 – All Blues (FS World Jazz) • 2009 – Freddie Hubbard: One of a Kind

Freddie Hubbard is recorded as having received NEA Jazz Masters.