Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard, who was born and raised in Indianapolis, has long been revered as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. Among a fulsome list of accolades are a Grammy Award ...
Freddie Hubbard is a conundrum. His style has varied significantly over the years, as though he were unsure of himself at a deep level. There were the Blue Note years, then the funk years, where he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) When I first stumbled across Freddie Hubbard’s music, I didn’t expect it to hit so hard—emotionally, spiritually, and musically. But that’s the thing about Hubbard: his trumpet doesn ...
The Indianapolis Star: A little-known 1967 Freddie Hubbard live performance will be released for Record Store Day
On , a not-quite-30-year-old Freddie Hubbard delivered a virtuosic performance that blew the proverbial roof off a Bronx jazz club. From an office at the Blue Morocco, a sound engineer ...
A little-known 1967 Freddie Hubbard live performance will be released for Record Store Day
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ...
For a guy who's considered to be one of the four or five greatest trumpet players in jazz history, Freddie Hubbard sure has taken some lumps. Back in the '70s, when adopting electric instruments and ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Influential jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, who played on hundreds of recordings during a career spanning 50 years, died in a Los Angeles hospital on Monday, his manager said.