Amoeba Music

By Stuart Kremsky

In his prime in the Sixties and Seventies, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard dazzled critics and audiences alike with his full tone, utter confidence, and bravura brass style. Hubbard’s bold trumpet work and sensuous flugelhorn playing put him along the top ranks of harp bop brassmen. Writing in The New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz, Barry Kernfeld describes his  improvisations as “combining imaginative melody with a glossy tone, rapid and clean technique, a brilliant high register, a subtle vibrato, and bluesy, squeezed half-valve notes.” Trumpeter and arranger David Weiss, who worked frequently with Hubbard from 2000 until his death, lauds his “fat sound [and] incredible range” and... Read More

City Of Origin:

Indianapolis , Indiana, United States

Genre:

Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop

Birthdate:

04/07/1938

Death date:

12/29/2008