Freddie Hubbard

Freddie Hubbard may be the quintessential hard bop/modern jazz trumpet player. HIGH BLUES PRESSURE was recorded in 1967 for Atlantic Records, but style-wise it might well be a Blue Note session--and a very fine one at that. Hubbard's tone is big, brash, fiery and blues-inflected. The wailing solos by Bennie Maupin and the under-rated James Spaulding match the intensity of the fire that Hubbard generates. - Oldies.com

PERSONNEL:

FREDDIE HUBBARD, trumpet, flugelhorn
JAMES SPAULDING, flute, alto sax
BENNIE MAUPIN, flute, tenor sax
KIANE ZAWADI, trombone
HOWARD JOHNSON, tuba
KENNY BARRON, WELDON IRVINE, piano
HERBIE LEWIS, double bass
FREDDIE WAITS, LOUIS HAYES, drums
ROMAN "DOG" BROADUS, congas

New York, November 13, 1967

TRACKS:

01. I Can't Let Her Go
02. Latina
03. High Blues Pressure
04. A Bientot
05. True Colors
06. For B.P.