The exciting, horn man, Freddie Hubbard

This evening I got rip-roaringly back into top-notch trumpet work. Yes, I listened to a real jazz great soul...the elegant trumpet power man, Freddie Hubbard. His work on the fusion honed 'Red Clay" album got me so excited with all his so brash, muscular good brass guy strength. He really gained huge fame when he had that sizzling music going with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Lord, he was right there working with the so-fine Wayne Shorter on tenor saxophone and Curtis Fuller on trombone. The merry and so profound jazz sounds of Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter are so full of huge listening thrills. Wow, Freddie Hubbard, sterling trumpet man, made fabulous music for Impulse, Atlantic, Blue Note and CTI. Another wonderful time this evening was giving a listen to Freddie Hubbard doing that soulful big horn work on the super album, 'Maiden Voyage' a fine performing job with the masterful keyboard artist, Herbie Hancock. Yes, everyone, the classic modern jazz totality of sound of Freddie Hubbard shows us what a powerhouse musical icon he was.

Mccoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard: Style Men

Profound, richly exciting piano jazz can be mesmerizing. A fella who really has this idea down to a science is McCoy Tyner. I listened today to an elegant composition written by the grand trumpet ace, Freddie Hubbard. The tune was 'Birdlike' and dedicated to the saxophone great one, Charlie Parker. On this set there was McCoy Tyner on piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums. What an exciting musical unit of jazz superstars! I can be a cheerleader for this kind of fine, brash jazz music all day. It is amusing that when a person hears this kind of total musicality it so overwhelms most all other music modes one normally hears. There is a shiny, sparkling milieu to jazz that is so sleekly full of fascination for it is a set of sounds that provokes one and shows a maddening delicious life experiences panorama that really has a good edge. Jazz helps our psychic well-being and helps us to forget all the meaningless sloth types that might have come our way over the decades of our existence. It is a gigantic blessing letting the brain gorge itself on the trumpet of Freddie Hubbard, the bass of Ron Carter, the piano of McCoy Tyner and the drums of Elvin Jones.