Freddie Blue and the Friendship Circle Band

One of the great jazz trumpeters, Freddie Hubbard crafted his sound in the Clifford Brown/Lee Morgan bebop tradition and after playing in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Beginning with 1960's Open Sesame on Blue Note, Hubbard was celebrated by critics and musicians for charting recordings that included Hub Cap, Hub-Tones, and Ready for Freddie. By the early '70s, he was a jazz pace-setter issuing classic albums on CTI including Straight Life and Red Clay. He threw some jazz-funk and disco into a string of popular albums for various labels during the latter half of the decade and...