FREDDIE HUBBARD – Music Is Here

Wewantsounds is delighted to announce the first-ever release of the mesmerising live performance by Freddie Hubbard and his quintet recorded in Paris at Maison de la Radio (ORTF) on 25 March 1973. Featuring Hubbard with George Cables on Fender Rhodes, Junior Cook on sax/flute, Kent Brinkley on Bass and Michael Carvin on drums, the group interprets four Hubbard classics in deep, spiritual mode. The tapes of the concert were transfered at INA”s studios and remastered by Colorsound Studio. The artwork was designed by Raimund Wong with liner notes by Kevin Le Gendre in conversation with drummer Michael Carvin. “We actually got the lightning in a bottle, we caught the magic…we caught it” says Michael Carvin reminiscing about the concert recorded by the Freddie Hubbard in Paris on a Spring night of1973. The whole year had been a special one for Freddie Hubbard. He had been one of Jazz”s brightest young stars for more than a decade and had also recorded as a sideman for such luminaries as John Coltrane, Art Blakey and Ornette Coleman.

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  Sky Dived
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  The Intrepid Fox
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  Povo
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  First Light