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Floratone with Bill Frisell & Matt Chamberlain
The album Floratone is a very cool atmospheric album that resulted from a rare free-form jam between guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain. Producers Tucker Martine and Lee Townsend took the raw tracks and applied their creative license to create an album of spacey instrumental grooves. Floratone’s 11 tracks also feature [...]
MEMORIAL FOR FREDDIE HUBBARD
Black Politics on The Web is reporting that jazz great Freddie Hubbard has died.December 30, 2008Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his manager, fellow trumpeter David Weiss of the New Jazz Composers Octet. He had been
RIP Freddie Hubbard
Aw, damn.From the AP:LOS ANGELES – Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.And something from a while ago:Questions? Comments? Remarks? Drop me an e-mail.Labels: Freddie Hubbard
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Great jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dies at 70
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose blazing virtuosity influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a...
Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard died yesterday. The recordings I think are worth seeking out are his early Blue Note bop sessions, rather than his later fusion works with CTI (for which he's probably most famous). Hubbard played with most of the great jazz musicians on some of their most important records of the late 1950s and 1960s (John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, etc.). But Open Sesame (1960), Reddie for Freddie (1961), and Hubtones (1962), all on Blue Note, are great records as a
Jazz great Freddie Hubbard Dead At 70
Jazz great Freddie Hubbard has died at the age of 70. Hubbard was a Grammy winning trumpet player, one of the best horn players of his era. He died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, only a month after having a heart attack. Hubbard’s career began back in 1958, and saw him join forces with greats including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Some of his earliest recordings included the greats: “Open Sesame” and “Goin’ Up.” “He influenced all the trumpet players that came after him,”
Jazz Legend Freddie Hubbard Dies
Jazz Legend Freddie Hubbard DiesAccomplished jazz musician Freddie Hubbard died Monday at California's Sherman Oaks Hospital. The master trumpeter succumbed from complications that stemmed from the heart attack he suffered on November 26. He was 70. Hubbard dazzled audiences and critics alike as a sideman for the likes of Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Art Blakey, and later as a band leader in his own right. He attracted attention in the 1960s for his superlative work as a mem
Jazz Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard Dies
Grammy Award-winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard has died at the age of 70. He collaborated with such greats as John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. Hubbard had been hospitalized since a heart attack last month.
