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Freddie Hubbard departs the planet.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Freddie Hubbard at the Messina Jazz Festival with Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Reggie Workman, and Sonny Fortune.  In 1980, I bought and started wearing out Freddie Hubbard's album Red Clay with my turntable needle, before the days of DVD players.  The local jazzplaying radio station WPFW today announced that Freddie passed away. Indystar.com says it happened today, related to complications from a heart attack late last month. He was seventy.  Freddie Hubbard was a major force in jazz trumpet. He blew me away when I experienced him live at the late Jonathan Swift's nightclub in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a quarter century ago, when he proclaimed that he was not going to be playing any more crossover "sh*t".  Freddie was great both as the lead musician and as a team member, including with VSOP, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and Woody Shaw...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).