 Freddie Hubbard: Passed away in L.A.
Freddie Hubbard, the famous jazz trumpeter, who played on hundreds of recordings during a career spanning fifty years, passed away in a hospital at Los Angeles on Monday. His manager David Weiss has brought the confirmation of the news on Monday. He was seventy years old.
Sources have thrown more light on the news of Freddie Hubbard. According to them, this Grammy Award-winning musician had been admitted as a patient at Sherman Oaks Hospital since suffering a heart attack almost one month ago.
Famous for his fiery style, Freddie Hubbard played with such jazz icons as Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.
2 years after moving to New York from his native Indianapolis in the year 1958, Freddie Hubbard recorded his first album, titled "Open Sesame," and enjoyed a meteoric rise in jazz circles.
By August 1961, he has released his fourth album, "Ready for Freddie," a collaboration with Wayne Shorter which is considered to be his masterpiece.
Throughout the decade, Freddie Hubbard played both at the helm of his own small group and with bands led by others. He was also featured on such iconic albums titled Ornette Coleman's "Free Jazz." and Coltrane’s "Ascension".
In the year 1972 Freddie Hubbard won his sole Grammy with "First Light." It is one of a series of crossover albums that brought him mainstream recognition. Later he returned to his hard-bop roots, thrilling audiences with his dazzling speed and impassioned blues lines. |
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