Freddie achieved his greatest
popular success in the 1970s
with a series of crossover
albums on Atlantic and CTI
Records. His early 70s jazz
albums for CTI, Red Clay,
First Light and Straight Life
were particularly well
received and First Light won a
Grammy Award. He returned to
the acoustic, hard bop arena
with his 1977 tour
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Freddie achieved his greatest
popular success in the 1970s
with a series of crossover
albums on Atlantic and CTI
Records. His early 70s jazz
albums for CTI, Red Clay,
First Light and Straight Life
were particularly well
received and First Light won a
Grammy Award. He returned to
the acoustic, hard bop arena
with his 1977 tour with the
V.S.O.P. quintet, which teamed
him with the members of the
1960s Miles Davis Quintet;
Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter,
Tony Williams, and Ron Carter.
In the 80s Hubbard was again
leading his own jazz groups,
attracting very favorable
notices for his playing at
concert halls and festivals in
the USA, Europe, and Japan,
often in the company of Joe
Henderson, playing a repertory
of hard-bop and modern-jazz
pieces. He also collaborated
with fellow trumpet legend
Woody Shaw for a series of
albums for the Blue Note and
Timeless labels. An
exceptionally talented
virtuoso performer, Hubbard's
rich full tone is never lost,
even when he plays dazzlingly
fast passages. As one of the
greatest hard bop trumpeters,
he strives to create
impassioned blues lines
without losing the
contemporary context within
which he plays. He is perhaps
one of the greatest technical
trumpet players ever to play
in the jazz idiom and arguably
the most influential.

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