Frederick Dewayne Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter.
17 Facts About Freddie Hubbard
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Freddie Hubbard played bebop, hard bop, and post-bop styles from the early 1960s onwards.
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Freddie Hubbard started playing the mellophone and trumpet in his school band at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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On June 19,1960, Freddie Hubbard made his first record as a leader, Open Sesame, at the beginning of his contract with Blue Note Records, with saxophonist Tina Brooks, pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Sam Jones, and drummer Clifford Jarvis.
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In December 1960, Freddie Hubbard was invited to play on Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz, after Coleman had heard him performing with Don Cherry.
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Freddie Hubbard became Shorter's bandmate when he replaced Lee Morgan in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers later in 1961.
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Freddie Hubbard played on more than 10 live and studio recordings with Blakey during one of the most acclaimed eras of the Jazz Messengers, including Caravan, Ugetsu, Mosaic, and Free for All.
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Freddie Hubbard remained with Blakey until 1966, leaving to form the first of several small groups of his own, which featured, among others, his Blue note associate James Spaulding, pianist Kenny Barron and drummer Louis Hayes.
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Freddie Hubbard was described as "the most brilliant trumpeter of a generation of musicians who stand with one foot in 'tonal' jazz and the other in the atonal camp".
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Freddie Hubbard achieved his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of albums for Creed Taylor and his record label CTI Records, overshadowing Stanley Turrentine, Hubert Laws, and George Benson.
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All of the band's members except Freddie Hubbard were members of the mid-1960s Miles Davis Quintet.
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Freddie Hubbard's trumpet playing was featured on the track "Zanzibar" from the 1978 Billy Joel album 52nd Street.
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Freddie Hubbard played at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1980 and in 1989.
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In 1988, Freddie Hubbard played with Elton John, contributing trumpet and flugelhorn and trumpet solos on the track "Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters " for John's Reg Strikes Back album.
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Freddie Hubbard performed at the Warsaw Jazz Festival, at which Live at the Warsaw Jazz Festival was recorded.
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On December 29,2008, Freddie Hubbard died in Sherman Oaks, California from complications caused by a heart attack he suffered on November 26.
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Freddie Hubbard had close ties to the Jazz Foundation of America in his later years.