Freddie Hubbard – Double Take (1985/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:00 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

This compelling album marked the first of two historic collaborations in the 1980s from trumpet innovators Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw. In addition to the two starring trumpeters, the session features alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett, pianist Mulgrew Miller, bassists Cecil McBee and Ray Drummond and drummer Carl Allen.

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Freddie Hubbard – The Night Of The Cookers (Volume Two Live) (1965/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 45:15 minutes | 1,87 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

On The Night of the Cookers, Freddie Hubbard plays with Lee Morgan, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Jr., Larry Ridley, Pete LaRoca and Big Black. Recorded on April 9 & 10, 1965 and released that same year, the album has been described as “one of the most compelling documents of a live band in full flight” (Maxwell Chandler, Jazz Police).

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Freddie Hubbard – The Night Of The Cookers (Volume One Live) (1965/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:42 minutes | 1,74 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

On The Night of the Cookers, Freddie Hubbard plays with Lee Morgan, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Jr., Larry Ridley, Pete LaRoca and Big Black. Recorded on April 9 & 10, 1965 and released that same year, the album has been described as “one of the most compelling documents of a live band in full flight” (Maxwell Chandler, Jazz Police).

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Freddie Hubbard – The Hub of Hubbard (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:59 minutes | 1,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPS

Hub-Tones from trumpeter Freddie Hubbard features his original songs as well as a spiced-up version of the standard You’re My Everything, recorded in October 1962 for Blue Note. The lineup backing Hubbard includes James Spaulding on alto sax and flute, Reggie Workman on bass, Clifford Jarvis on drums and the legendary Herbie Hancock on piano.

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Freddie Hubbard – The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard (1962/1996)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 970 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Impulse!

Over the course of his nearly five decade career, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard established himself as one of the most versatile and inventive jazz musicians of the twentieth century. The Grammy-winning virtuoso appeared on some of the most important albums in the genre, including seminal works by Ornette Coleman, Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, John Coltrane, and countless others. The Artistry Of Freddie Hubbard, his fifth album for Impulse!, is a spellbinding piece of jazz history. Hubbard’s molten lines are augmented by the trombone work of the legendary Curtis Fuller and tenor saxophonist John Gilmore of the Sun Ra Archestra. One of the all-time great jazz records.

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Freddie Hubbard – Sweet Return (1983/2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 48:11 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Sweet Return is a definitive outing from the energetic trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Joined by an all-star lineup of bassist Eddie Gomez, pianist Joanne Brackeen, drummer Roy Haynes and tenor Lew Tabackin, the ensemble tenderly interprets standards with an overwhelming amount of originality. Standout moments included the classics, “Misty,” “Whistling Away The Dark,” and “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes.” Hubbard’s timing is beautifully spaced and his tone has never sounded more vibrant. Experience this masterwork as a super hi-res download!

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Freddie Hubbard – Sky Dive (1973/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 34:42 minutes | 1,33 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Sky Dive is the twentieth album recorded in 1972 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was his fourth album released on Creed Taylor’s CTI label and features performances by Hubbard, Keith Jarrett, George Benson, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham, Airto Moreira and Ray Barretto.

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Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay (1970/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:19 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Jazz
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This may be Freddie Hubbard’s finest moment as a leader, in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On Red Clay, Hubbard combines hard bop’s glorious blues-out past with the soulful innovations of mainstream jazz in the 1960s, and reads them through the chunky groove innovations of ’70s jazz fusion. This session places the trumpeter in the company of giants such as tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Lenny White. Hubbard’s five compositions all come from deep inside blues territory; these shaded notions are grafted onto funky hard bop melodies worthy of Horace Silver’s finest tunes, and are layered inside the smoothed-over cadences of shimmering, steaming soul. The 12-minute-plus title track features a 4/4 modal opening and a spare electric piano solo woven through the twin horns of Hubbard and Henderson. It is a fine example of snaky groove music. Henderson even takes his solo outside a bit without ever moving out of the rhythmatist’s pocket. “Delphia” begins as a ballad with slow, clipped trumpet lines against a major-key background, and opens onto a midtempo groover, then winds back into the dark, steamy heart of bluesy melodicism. The hands-down favorite here, though, is “The Intrepid Fox,” with its Miles-like opening of knotty changes and shifting modes, that are all rooted in bop’s muscular architecture. It’s White and Hancock who shift the track from underneath with large sevenths and triple-timed drums that land deeply inside the clamoring, ever-present riff. Where Hubbard and Henderson are playing against, as well as with one another, the rhythm section, lifted buoyantly by Carter’s bridge-building bassline, carries the melody over until Hancock plays an uncharacteristically angular solo before splitting the groove in two and doubling back with a series of striking arpeggios. This is a classic, hands down.

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Freddie Hubbard – Ready For Freddie (1961/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:59 minutes | 1,69 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records

Ready For Freddie is Hubbard’s 1961 masterpiece and most iconic recording as a bandleader. Joined by an all-star lineup, which includes Bernard McKinney, Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Art Davis and Elvin Jones, the album is widely considered one of the greatest releases in jazz history. Ready For Freddie includes the standouts “Marie Antoinette” and “Weaver Of Dreams.” Ready For Freddie is an absolute vital addition to your music library.

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Freddie Hubbard – Polar AC (1975/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 40:25 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © CTI Records

Warm and wonderful work from Freddie Hubbard – a killer of an album recorded for CTI, and one of his most soulful efforts for the label! The album’s got a bit more of a human heart than some of the more cosmic sessions Freddie cut at the time – a bit more contemplative and introspective, but no less open-minded and electrically charged. The assortment of players is all top-shelf – with Billy Cobham, Airto, Lennie White, George Cables, Hubert Laws, and George Benson all backing Freddie up on the set – and titles include a great take on “People Make the World Go Round”, plus “Naturally”, and “Son of Sky Dive”, which grooves just like its papa!

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Freddie Hubbard – Pinnacle, Live and Unreleased from Keystone Korner (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:11 minutes | 421 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Resonance Records

Captured live at San Francisco’s historic Keystone Korner Jazz Club in 1980, trumpet master Freddie Hubbard was at the top of his game. Hubbard is joined by an all-star cast, who perform his most challenging repertoire. This is a funky, sophisticated and melodic outing that is sure to please Hubbard fans and audiophiles. The album features previously unreleased material. It also includes the only known recording of Hubbard performing Coltrane’s massive hit “Giant Steps”.

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Freddie Hubbard – Live In Warsaw 1991 (Live at the Jazz Jamboree Warszawa, 24/10/1991) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:04 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © FUZZY LEMONS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP LTD

The great trumpeter’s set here was recorded live at the Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival in 1991 with Michael Urbaniak on violin, Donald Braden on tenor sax, Ronnie Matthew on piano, Jeff Chambers on bass and Ralph Penland on drums.

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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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Freddie Hubbard – Keep Your Soul Together (1973/2016)
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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