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FREDDIE HUBBARD – RED CLAY

Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay. Label: Music On Vinyl. Format: Vinyl. Recorded over three days in late January 1970 at Rudy Van Gelder’s legendary Englewood Cliffs studio, Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Red Clay’ stands as a watershed moment in jazz history. It captures the precise micro-epoch where the muscular, harmonically dense hard bop of the 1960s collided …

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CULT CLASSIC: FREDDIE HUBBARD-GLEAM.

Freddie Hubbard-Gleam. By the time thirty-six year old Freddie Hubbard arrived in Japan, in March 1975, he was already regarded as one of the most influential trumpeters of his generation. That had been the case since the early sixties when, Freddie Hubbard’s career began, and he brought what was a new perspective to bebop and …

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FREDDIE HUBBARD-GLEAM.

Freddie Hubbard-Gleam. Label: BGO Records. By the time thirty-six year old Freddie Hubbard arrived in Japan, in March 1975, he was already regarded as one of the most influential trumpeters of his generation. That had been the case since the early sixties when, Freddie Hubbard’s career began, and he brought what was a new perspective …

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