(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 ...
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 ...
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Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, whose virtuosity earned him jazz royalty status in the 1960s and whose commercial recordings in the ’70s made him a fusion star, died Monday at the age of 70. He died in ...
On April 10, 1967, 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 ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's first posthumous release, "Without a Song: Live In Europe 1969," will surface on June 2. Hubbard, who died in December at age 70, will join the ...
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.
A trumpeter depends on one of the most fragile parts of the human anatomy to make art and earn a living. A horn player's lip must transform itself from a mass of sensitive membrane to a granite-hard ...