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Freddie Hubbard and the New Jazz Composers Octet were in Bennett Studios' NORTH ROOM recently. The band consists of Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet, David Weiss - Trumpet, Myron Walden - Alto Sax, Jimmy Greene - Tenor Sax, Steve Davis - Trombone, Norbert Stachel - Baritone Sax, Xavier Davis - Piano, Dwayne Burno - Bass and E.J. Strickland - Drums. Dave Kowalski manned the controls at the NEVE VR. The stellar playing (as well as the stellar acoustics of the NORTH ROOM) is sure result in an amazing album. Freddie rocked the jazz world in the 1970s with a series of crossover albums on Atlantic and CTI Records. His early 70s jazz albums for CTI, Red Clay, First Light and Straight Life were particularly well received and First Light won a Grammy Award.
He returned to the acoustic, hard bop arena with his 1977 tour with the V.S.O.P. quintet, which teamed him with the members of the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet; Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, and Ron Carter. In the 80s Hubbard was again leading his own jazz groups, attracting very favorable notices for his playing at concert halls and festivals in the USA, Europe, and Japan, often in the company of Joe Henderson, playing a repertory of hard-bop and modal-jazz pieces. He also collaborated with fellow trumpet legend Woody Shaw for a series of albums for the Blue Note and Timeless labels. An exceptionally talented virtuoso performer, Hubbard's rich full tone is never lost, even when he plays dazzlingly fast passages.
As one of the greatest hard bop trumpeters, he strives to create impassioned blues lines without losing the contemporary context within which he plays. He is perhaps one of the greatest technical trumpet players ever to play in the jazz idiom and arguably the most influential. Here's a photo gallery with a few more pictures.
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