Biography

In 1970 Freddie Hubbard’s career reached a crossroads. Ten years after the trumpeter had released his debut album Open Sesame he could already take stock in an impressive array of achievements: around a dozen albums under his own name for Blue Note and Atlantic, participation in ground-breaking free jazz albums by Coltrane and Ornette Coleman, the development of an original sound somewhere between hard bop, soul, and fusion. From there he broke out and into his popular phase with CTI Records. At the same time this MPS album loomed on the horizon as a milestone. Hubbard recorded “The Hub of Hubbard” at in 1970 the MPS studios in Villingen, Germany during a break in his European tour.

“The Hub of Hubbard” – Listen or buy: https://MPS.lnk.to/thehubofhubbard​