Hub tones
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LP, CD |
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5 (LP) |
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38:53 |
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Hub-Tones is a jazz album by Freddie Hubbard . It was recorded on October 10, 1962 and released by Blue Note Records the following year .
The album
Hub-Tones was Freddie Hubbard's third album for Blue Note and the beginning of his collaboration with alto saxophonist and flautist James Spaulding , which began in the second half of the 1960s with the albums Breaking Point , The Night of the Cookers , Backlash and most recently The Black Angel (1969) continued. For the recording of Hub-Tones he “ put together a hardbop quintet that, after the previous experiments with Coltrane's rhythm section , should bring more grip to the group sound .” With pianist Herbie Hancock , the trumpeter had had his Blue Note Debut album Takin 'Off recorded; Bassist Reggie Workman was in Hubbard's previous Here to Stay session and drummer Clifford Jarvis was in Hubbard's debut Open Sesame in 1960 .
The Hub Tones session "also marks Hubbard's arrival as one of the most respected trumpeters and bandleaders in modern jazz "; in addition, "the LP noticeably established him as a masterful composer and interpreter of standards."
The only foreign composition was the opening track of the album, the old standard "You're My Everything", which Harry Warren had written in 1931 for the Ed Wynn show The Laugh Parade . The band around Hubbard interprets this piece in a medium tempo. After the trumpeter's solo, Spaulding can be heard on the alto saxophone. James Spaulding is featured as a flautist with a solo in the following, similarly “slightly swinging” piece “Prophet Jennings”. In the title track “Hub-Tones” (presented in two versions in the later CD editions differently than on the LP) “the figure resembling a machine gun [volley] opens a flickering blowing session ”, says Bob Blumenthal . This is followed by the moving “Lament For Booker”, the lament for the trumpeter Booker Little , who died the year before at the age of 23 ; "Hubbard's velvety ballad style is soulfully supported by Spaulding and Hancock." The album ends with the "fiery" "For Spee's Sake".
Reception of the album
Scott Yanow , who gave the album four and a half stars, the second highest rating, in Allmusic , points out in his review that John Coltrane's modal music was beginning to affect Hubbard's conception; "His own playing pushed the modern jazz mainstream away, but without completely entering the avant-garde ."
Ralf Dombrowski , who included the album in his selection of the most important jazz albums, states in summary that it cemented Hubbard's "reputation as primus inter pares of his generation" and "also became famous for his abstract cover by Reid Miles ".
The critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton , who also gave the album the highest rating, see Hub-Tones as one of Hubbard's most touching recordings and particularly highlight the role of James Spaulding. Highlights of the album are the tribute to Booker Little and the Hubbard compositions "Hub-Tones" and "Prophet Jennings".
Even Ian Carr is one of the album Freddie Hubbard's most important works; it is "a classic album of the early 60s". Given the band leader's age - Hubbard was 24 years old at the time - the author praises his optimistic playing, the partnership with the excellent but underrated James Spaulding and the great rhythm section.
Title list
- Hub tones (Blue Note BLP 4115, BST 84115, CDP 7 46507-2, CDP 7 84115-2, B1-ST 84115)
- You're My Everything 6:35 ( Harry Warren , Joseph Young, Mort Dixon)
- Prophet Jennings 5:29 (Hubbard)
- Hub-Tones 8:22 (Hubbard)
- Lament for Booker 9:41 (Hubbard)
- For Spee's Sake 6:05 (Hubbard)
- The CD edition CDP 7 84115-2 contained alternate takes from You're My Everything, Hub-Tones and For Spee's Sake
literature
- Bob Blumenthal: Liner Notes (of the CD edition)
- Ian Carr , Digby Fairweather , Brian Priestley : Rough Guide Jazz. The ultimate guide to jazz. 1800 bands and artists from the beginning until today. 2nd, expanded and updated edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2004, ISBN 3-476-01892-X .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
- Ralf Dombrowski : Basis-Diskothek Jazz (= Reclams Universal Library. No. 18372). Reclam, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-15-018372-3 .
- Leonard Feather - original liner notes (1964) for "Breaking Point" (Blue Note Records)
Web links
- Hub-Tones at Allmusic (English)
- Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones on YouTube