Hubbard, Freddie - Ready For Freddie

NEW VINYL LP ON BLUE NOTE 2021

180 GRAM VINYL.

The Indianapolis-born trumpeter Freddie Hubbard introduced his prodigious talent on Blue Note Records with a run of remarkable albums recorded thru the early 1960s. At first rooted firmly in hard bop, Hubbard began to broaden his approach on his masterwork Ready for Freddie, recorded in August 1961. “The way in which I’m most interested in going is Coltrane-like,” Hubbard told liner note writer Nat Hentoff. Hubbard had recorded with Coltrane earlier in the year on the saxophonist’s Atlantic album Olé Coltrane and Africa/Brass for Impulse. Hubbard further explained.

Tracklist

A1:  Arietis
A2:  Weaver Of Dreams
A3:  Marie Antoinette
B1:  Birdlike
B2:  Crisis