MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Freddie Hubbard A trumpet giant who labored in the shadow of Miles Davis during the ‘60s, Freddie Hubbard is still one the most influential players in jazz. Giving up a college scholarship to study French horn in favor a career playing trumpet, Hubbard got his start in his hometown of Indianapolis with the Montgomery Brothers, then moved to Chicago and later New York. There he met saxophonist Eric Dolphy, who became his roommate and introduced him to modal jazz. Hubbard’s first high-profile gig was in 1961, when he replaced Lee Morgan in the Jazz Messengers, bringing them his repertoire of powerful, high register licks. He’d become a bandleader the year before, in 1960, with Open Sesame, recorded for Blue Note and followed the next year with the even better Hub Cap. The rest of the decade saw Hubbard’s reputation increase, with guest stints on important albums like John Coltrane’s Ascension and Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz, as well as his own work. But his biggest hit, Red Clay, came in 1970, after Hubbard had switched gears and embraced the then-burgeoning fusion movement. A string of popular fusion releases followed, including the Grammy-winning 1972 set First Light, although critics charged Hubbard with selling out. In 1977, he’d had enough, reuniting with ex-Miles sidemen Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams to form VSOP; essentially, it was Miles’ classic mid-‘60s band, with Hubbard on trumpet. Many of Hubbard’s classic recordings were reissued in the ‘80s on a revitalized Blue Note, which he helped relaunch. Empowered by reconnecting to his strong bop roots, Hubbard continues to record and tour, although troubled by a split lip that occurred after a 1993 onstage blowing contest with fellow trumpeter Jon Faddis. But with the bulk of his fusion-era output reevaluated by current hip-hop artists (including A Tribe Called Quest) and rare groove fanatics, the spotlight remains on Hubbard, where it belongs.     Freddie Hubbard Shaw Nuff LiquidAudio Jazz Harder + faster = better on this pumping bop workout from ’81. If you remember Hub as just a mellow fusioneer, hear how wrong you were.
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