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Sky Dive

Freddie Hubbard

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Album Review

Freddie Hubbard's fourth CTI recording (and the second one with Don Sebesky arrangements) certainly has a diverse repertoire. In addition to his originals "Povo" and "Sky Dive" (both of which are superior jam tunes), the trumpeter stretches out on the theme from The Godfather and Bix Beiderbecke's "In a Mist." The charts for the brass and woodwinds are colorful; there is a fine supporting cast that includes guitarist George Benson, Keith Jarrett on keyboards, and flutist Hubert Laws; and Hubbard takes several outstanding trumpet solos.

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Sky Dive

I decided to revisit this classic disc after hearing Terence Blanchard's great new album "A Tale of God's Will". Some of the tunes brought back Freddie's playing on this vintage CTI record, and when I listened again for the first time in probably 25 years, I wasn't disappointed. Great grooves, soaring solos from all participants, and the arrangements still avoid the cheesiness that plagued so many of the CTI releases from the 70's. Well worth the listen.

Biography

Born: April 7, 1938 in Indianapolis, IN

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s

One of the great jazz trumpeters of all time, Freddie Hubbard formed his sound out of the Clifford Brown/Lee Morgan tradition, and by the early '70s was immediately distinctive and the pacesetter in jazz. However, a string of blatantly commercial albums later in the decade damaged his reputation and, just when Hubbard, in the early '90s (with the deaths of Dizzy Gillespie...
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