This may endure artist/freddie-hubbard-mn0000798326">Freddie Hubbard's finest minute equally a leader, inwards that it embodies as well as utilizes all of his strengths equally a composer, soloist, as well as frontman. On Red Clay, artist/hubbard-mn0000798326">Hubbard combines difficult bop's glorious blues-out past times alongside the soulful innovations of mainstream jazz inwards the 1960s, as well as reads them through the chunky groove innovations of '70s jazz fusion. This session places the trumpeter inwards the companionship of giants such equally tenor saxophonist artist/joe-henderson-mn0000139804">Joe Henderson, pianist artist/herbie-hancock-mn0000957296">Herbie Hancock, bassist artist/ron-carter-mn0000275832">Ron Carter, as well as drummer artist/lenny-white-mn0000246487">Lenny White. artist/hubbard-mn0000798326">Hubbard's v compositions all come upwards from deep within blues territory; these shaded notions are grafted onto funky difficult bop melodies worthy of artist/horace-silver-mn0000267354">Horace Silver's finest tunes, as well as are layered within the smoothed-over cadences of shimmering, steaming soul. The 12-minute-plus championship rails features a 4/4 modal opening as well as a spare electrical pianoforte solo woven through the twin horns of artist/hubbard-mn0000798326">Hubbard as well as artist/henderson-mn0000139804">Henderson. It is a fine illustration of snaky groove music. artist/henderson-mn0000139804">Henderson fifty-fifty takes his solo exterior a flake without ever moving out of the rhythmatist's pocket. "Delphia" begins equally a ballad alongside slow, clipped trumpet lines against a major-key background, as well as opens onto a midtempo groover, thus winds dorsum into the dark, steamy heart of bluesy melodicism. The hands-down favorite here, though, is "The Intrepid Fox," alongside its artist/miles-mn0000423829">Miles-like opening of knotty changes as well as shifting modes, that are all rooted inwards bop's muscular architecture. It's artist/white-mn0000246487">White as well as artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock who shift the rails from underneath alongside large sevenths as well as triple-timed drums that province deeply within the clamoring, ever-present riff. Where artist/hubbard-mn0000798326">Hubbard as well as artist/henderson-mn0000139804">Henderson are playing against, equally good equally alongside ane another, the beat section, lifted buoyantly past times artist/carter-mn0000275832">Carter's bridge-building bassline, carries the tune over until artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock plays an uncharacteristically angular solo earlier splitting the groove inwards 2 as well as doubling dorsum alongside a serial of striking arpeggios. This is a classic, hands down.
On Jan. 27, 1970, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, playing at the peak of his powers after a string of 7 bright Blue Note albums as well as 3 for the Atlantic label, went into the studio to cutting his firstly for Creed Taylor’s CTI label. With Taylor producing, a stellar shape was assembled at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio inwards Englewood Cliffs, N.J., for 3 consecutive days of recording. They emerged alongside Red Clay, an album that would non solely define Hubbard’s direction over the adjacent decade spell setting the template for all futurity CTI recordings, simply would equally good stimulate got a dramatic send upon on a generation of trumpet players coming upwards inwards the ’70s.
It was a transitional menstruum inwards the jazz; the tectonic shift kickoff alongside Miles Davis’ In a Silent Way, recorded the previous year. Hubbard’s entry into this crossover territory on Red Clay was characterized past times the slyly syncopated beats of drummer Lenny White on the funky 12-minute championship track, an infectious groover that was shortly covered past times budding crossover groups all over America. Essentially an inventive trouble gear upwards to the chord changes of “Sunny,” Bobby Hebb’s hitting vocal from 1966, “Red Clay” would instruct Hubbard’s signature tune throughout his career. As trumpeter, friend as well as benefactor David Weiss, who is credited alongside bringing Hubbard out of self-imposed retirement inwards the belatedly ’90s, explains, “Later inwards life Freddie would ever denote it equally ‘the tune that’s been keeping me endure for the terminal thirty years.’ We played ‘Red Clay’ every nighttime as well as he would quote ‘Sunny’ over it every night.”
Like Stanley Turrentine, Freddie Hubbard's best move was ever inwards the service of others until he signed alongside Creed Taylor's CTI label. He thus released a trio of albums that represents his crowning achievement equally a leader. Red Clay finds him inwards the companionship of Herbie Hancock, who played a large part inwards defining jazz fusion, equally good equally heavyweights similar Ron Carter, Joe Henderson, as well as Lenny White. The championship rails kicks off the tape alongside a funky groove that is much to a greater extent than memorable than whatever such flim-flam attempted on Blue Note releases from the previous decade; the remaining tracks are fairly adventurous explorations of a diversity of interesting themes. Hancock, whose electrical pianoforte is ane of the guilty pleasures of the area, carries the hateful solar daytime alongside funky vamping as well as tasteful soloing. But Hubbard is no slouch either, contributing about of his almost memorable solos over the jazzy grooves. Henderson has smoothed out his previous sound, eliminating the stuttering as well as wailing that defined his vogue inwards the sixties. Simply put, Red Clay is ane of the relatively few jazz masterpieces from the seventies.
Track listing
01 "Red Clay" - 12:11
02 "Delphia" - 7:23
03 "Suite Sioux" - 8:38
04 "The Intrepid Fox" - 10:45
05 "Cold Turkey" (Lennon) - 10:27
06 "Red Clay" [live] - 18:44 Bonus rails on the 2002 & 2010 CD release
All compositions past times Freddie Hubbard except equally indicated
Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Jan 27, 28 & 29, 1970 except rails 6 recorded endure at the Southgate Palace on July 19, 1971
Personnel
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone, flute
Herbie Hancock - electrical piano, organ
Ron Carter - bass, electrical bass
Lenny White - drums
Track 6 Personnel
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Stanley Turrentine - tenor saxophone
Johnny "Hammond" Smith - organ/electric piano
George Benson - guitar
Ron Carter - bass
Billy Cobham - drums
Airto Moreira - percussion
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