Artist Selects

Performer: Freddie Hubbard
Artist: Herbie Hancock; McCoy Tyner
Producer: Alfred Lion; Richard Seidel; Alfred Lion
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Freddie Hubbard; James Spaulding (flute, alto saxophone); Hosea Taylor (alto saxophone); Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone); Curtis Fuller (trombone); Bernard McKinney (euphonium); Ronnie Mathews, Cedar Walton (piano); Clifford Jarvis, Joe Chambers, Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey (drums); Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner (piano); Elvin Jones (drums); Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers. Liner Note Authors: Freddie Hubbard; Richard Seidel. Recording information: The Renaissance, Hollywood, CA (11/06/1960-03/05/1966); Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/06/1960-03/05/1966). This excellent compilation features a range of tracks from Freddie Hubbard's 1960s work for Blue Note. The trumpeter selected the cuts himself (covering both his solo work and recordings made with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers), and also wrote the liner notes. Hubbard was one of the best and most technically advanced trumpet players of the era, and his skills are on beautiful display throughout. While it does not represent his outstanding CTI recordings from the early '70s, ARTIST SELECTS is a fine sampler of Hubbard's invariably superb Blue Note work.

Freddie Hubbard has always been a trumpet player of great facility, suppleness, and polish. Following his breakthrough with the Jazz Messengers in the late '50s, his burnished tone became a focal point of innumerable Blue Note albums of the '60s, both as leader and sideman. After a foray into fusion in the '70s, he returned to the hard bop of his early career.

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