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Freddie Hubbard – Life Flight (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:47 minutes | 1,65 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Life Flight is a later album by Freddie Hubbard and was recorded in 1987, when the trumpeter was 48 years old. Still in peak form, the album is an excellent example of Hubbard’s musicianship and mastery of his instrument.
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FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:38 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Keep Your Soul Together is an album recorded in 1973 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his fifth studio album released on Creed Taylor’s CTI label and features performances by Hubbard, Junior Cook, George Cables, Aurell Ray, Kent Brinkley, Ron Carter, Ralph Penland and Juno Lewis.
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Freddie Hubbard – Hub-Tones (1962/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:43 minutes | 1,67 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Originally released as Blue Note BLP 4115 (mono) and BST 84115 (stereo)
“In preparing these hi def remasters, we were very conscientious about maintaining the feel of the original releases while adding a previously unattainable transparency and depth. It now sounds like you’ve set up your chaise lounge right in the middle of Rudy Van Gelder’s studio!” – Blue Note President, Don Was.
Hub-Tones features trumpeter Freddie Hubbard leading a quintet in a rolicking one-day session. Included on the album are Hubbard originals “Lament for Booker” and “Hub-Tones”, as well as an innovative and unusual version of the standard “You’re My Everything.” A standout among Hubbard’s excellent Blue Note albums.
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Freddie Hubbard – Hot Horn (1981/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:33 minutes | 869 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Archive of Folk & Jazz Music
The album jacket of this budget LP contains many mistakes (Cedar “Watton” on piano?) and the recording quality of the live (bootleg?) session is erratic but trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was at the peak of his powers in the early ’70s, making this set worth picking up by his true fans. Hubbard stretches out on long versions of “Intrepid Fox” and “Pensativa” with his quintet (which includes Junior Cook on tenor, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Wayne Dockery and drummer Billy Hayes) and the rhythm section led by Watton, uhh Walton gets The Beatles’ “Yesterday” as a feature.
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Freddie Hubbard – High Blues Pressure (1968/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:24 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
“High Blues Pressure” is the thirteenth album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his second release on the Atlantic label and features performances by Hubbard, James Spaulding, Bennie Maupin, Herbie Lewis, Roman “Dog” Broadus, Weldon Irvine, Kenny Barron, Freddie Waits, Louis Hayes, Howard Johnson, and Kiane Zawadi.
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Freddie Hubbard – First Light (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:10 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CTI Records
In the pantheon of jazz trumpeters, Freddie Hubbard stands as one of the boldest and most inventive artists of the bop, hard-bop and post-bop eras. Although influenced by titans like Miles Davis and Clifford Brown, Hubbard ultimately forged his own unique sound – a careful balance of bravado and subtlety that fueled more than fifty solo recordings and countless collaborations with some of the most prominent jazz artists of his era.
After a series of strong releases on Blue Note and a stint with the Jazz Messengers in the ’60s, Hubbard enjoyed his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of crossover albums on Atlantic and CTI Records. His early ‘70s jazz albums for CTI – Red Clay (1970), Straight Life (1970) and First Light (1971) – were particularly well received with the latter taking home a Grammy for Best Instrumental Jazz Performance.
First Light finds the trumpeter joined by guitarists Eric Gale and George Benson, pianists Herbie Hancock and Richard Wyands, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Jack DeJohnette and percussionist Airto Moreira amidst elegant string arrangements by Don Sebesky, a first for Hubbard thus the title. From the sizzling title track to a melodic take on Paul and Linda McCartney’s “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey” to a lovely rendition of the Mancini/Mercer standard “Moment To Moment,” First Light is first-rate.
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Freddie Hubbard – Breaking Point (1964/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:11 minutes | 1,59 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
One of the most exciting trumpeters of all time, Freddie Hubbard ranks right up there with Lee Morgan as the most vital trumpet player of the 1960s. An absolute powerhouse on his instrument, Freddie became renown for his fearless and fiery playing and his courageous and dramatic solos. Hubbard recorded many definitive albums for Blue Note during the first half of the ’60s including the 1964 gem Breaking Point! which finds the jazz master leading a rock solid quintet that includes James Spaulding (alto saxophone/flute), Ronnie Mathews (piano), Eddie Khan (bass) and Joe Chambers (drums) on a powerful and progressive 5-song set of four of his own originals and the Chambers classic “Mirrors.”
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Freddie Hubbard – Blue Spirits (1965/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:47 minutes | 1,58 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
One of the acknowledged giants of jazz trumpet, Freddie Hubbard recorded many albums for Blue Note in the 1960s including the 1965 hard bop gem, Blue Spirits, which found him in three different ensembles – an octet with congas and a euphonium, a septet with McCoy Tyner (piano), and a sextet with Herbie Hancock (piano, celeste) and Elvin Jones (drums) – and served as his last studio effort for the label. Also featured intermittently are Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone), Reggie Workman (bass) and Pete La Roca (drums) among others. The set is comprised of five diverse Hubbard originals including the Latin tinged “Soul Surge” and “Cunga Black” and the brooding numbers “Blue Spirits” and “Jodo.”
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Freddie Hubbard Quintet – At Onkel Pö´s Carnegie Hall, Hamburg 1979 (Remastered) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:03 minutes | 864 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Jazzline
“When Freddie Hubbard came to Hamburg to get on the tiny stage of Onkel Pö’s Carnegie Hall, he was right at the centre of the world of jazz, probably more than ever before or after in his career – together with Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and Tony Williams the trumpet player had set-up the quintet ‘V.S.O.P.’ three years earlier; as the other four people of the group had previously formed the legendary second quintet of Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard could be considered to be his direct successor. . . . The concert in Hamburg with his own quintet was exemplary for the artistic standard Hubbard set in those days almost four decades ago. Together with the ‘V.S.O.P.’-legend, this was basically the prologue to the evening at Onkel Pö; Furthermore, at that time the album The Love Connection (1979) had just been released and its title song also starts off the live recording made by the NDR broadcasting station on location at Lehmweg in Hamburg-Eppendorf. Hubbard’s band adopted some aspects of Blakey’s ‘Messengers’-strategy: appearing on stage together with the young up-and-coming saxophonist Hadley Caliman (who sometimes also played the flute), the then 23-year-old bassist Larry Klein – who would later develop into a surprisingly versatile artist […] and with the drummer Carl Burnett. Above all, the pianist Billy Childs performed brilliantly that evening at Onkel Pö – he was only 22 years old. Apropos, also the exceptional singer Leon Thomas was on stage in Hamburg that day. . . . Freddie Hubbard’s career suffered a severe setback in 1993; or to be more precise: not a setback but a split with dramatic consequences. His lips could not cope with the high pressure of playing the trumpet any longer. It took Hubbard several years to heal and regenerate (his lips as well as himself!). These were very difficult times for him. Basically, he had to completely reinvent himself as a musician – and he started (as he sometimes had already done in the past) to perform on the softer, more gentle sounding flugelhorn, an instrument which is less physically demanding on the lips.” (Michael Laages)
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Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caballé – Barcelona (Special Edition – Deluxe) (1988/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:11:18 minutes | 2,37 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI
Newly orchestrated 2012 reworking of 1988 collaboration between the Queen frontman & Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé. Also includes 2 discs of rarities,orchestral versions & outtakes. Released on September 2012.
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Freddie Mercury – Never Boring (Deluxe) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:13:31 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
The “Never Boring” release brings together for the first time a specially-curated selection of Freddie Mercury’s music and written and spoken words. The set reminds us that Freddie was an exceptional singer, songwriter, performer and human being whose special kind of magic is captured in this exceptional collection of his solo work.
The release is meticulously compiled and produced by Queen’s longtime sound team Justin Shirley-Smith, Kris Fredriksson and Joshua J Macrae who also co-produced the Bohemian Rhapsody film official soundtrack album.
The set includes the recently discovered track “Time Waits For No One” produced by Dave Clark and a haunting little known track “Love Me Like There’s No Tomorrow”.
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Freddie Mercury – Mr Bad Guy (Special Edition) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:46 minutes | 545 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
For this 2019 ‘special edition’ of the “Mr Bad Guy” album, sound team Justin Shirley-Smith, Joshua J Macrae and Kris Fredriksson have taken the very best original source material available. They went back not to previously remastered and mixed tapes, but to the original source multi-track tapes, so that they could build a new mix true to Freddie’s original versions, now taking advantage of the time, resources and technology that Freddie may not have originally had available to him in the 1980s. All offer ultimate quality, first generation vocals showing off Freddie’s incredible vocal range.
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Freddie Mercury – Barcelona (Special Edition) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 44:12 minutes | 508 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
This special edition of the “Barcelona” album was reworked in 2012 to replace the previous instrumental tracks with new, live symphonic orchestration and percussion, rather than synthesisers and drum machines used on the original album. Specially arranged by Queen orchestral arranger Stuart Morley, the 80-piece Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra now performs the symphonic score, while Rufus Taylor — the son of Queen’s Roger Taylor — plays drums on ‘The Golden Boy’ and ‘How Can I Go On’, a track that also features John Deacon’s bass guitar. The special edition of the “Barcelona” album is now waiting to be rediscovered by fans of Freddie and Montserrat.
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Freddie King – Let’s Hide Away and Dance with Freddie King (1961/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 33:40 minutes | 355 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Music Manager
Let’s Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King is a 1961 instrumental album by blues guitarist and singer Freddie King (at the time spelled “Freddy”). Released on King Records, the album contained a number of influential songs and two hit singles, “Hide Away” and “San-Ho-Zay”. The former reached number five on the Billboard Hot R&B chart and number 29 on the broader Hot 100 chart, while the latter reached numbers four and 47. The album, itself influential, has been critically well received.
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Freddie King – Freddie King Is A Blues Master (Mono) (1969/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:29 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic
1969 album from a certified blues master. Well, actually, we didn’t ask to see his certificate of mastery, but we respect Freddie King enough to know that he wouldn’t release an album entitled Freddie King is a Blues Master if he couldn’t back it up that kind of bold claim. Also, in case this piece happens to be your introduction to the album in question, allow us to assure you that we’ve heard it, and there’s definitely no case of false advertising in play with this album.
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