Freddie Hubbard - Born To Be Blue (1981) 320 kbps

Tracklist

01.Gibraltar (11:55)
02.True Colors (7:48)
03.Born To Be Blue (7:22)
04.Joy Spring (6:35)
05.Up Jumped Spring (6:58)

personnel :

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Harold Land - tenor sax
Billy Childs - keyboards
Larry Klein - bass
Steve Houghton - drums
Buck Clark - percussion

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up with veteran tenor-saxophonist Harold Land and Hubbard's regular rhythm section of the period (keyboardist Billy Childs, bassist Larry Klein, drummer Steve Houghton and percussionist Buck Clark) on this fine modern hard bop CD, a straight reissue of the original Pablo LP. Hubbard had hurt his reputation with his very commercial Columbia recordings of the mid-to-late '70s so in 1981 he was doing his best to return to his brand of straightahead jazz. This date is highlighted by "Gibraltar," Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring" and a revisit to Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring." ~ Scott Yanow