What Up February Day 18 RIP Freddie H

What Up February Day 18 RIP FREDDIE

Will Friedwald wrote a great OB titled, “Taps for Freddie Hubbard” in the Wall Street Journal January 3, 2009. In the 70 years that he was with us, Freddie Hubbard, who died on Dec. 29, was known primarily for one thing: playing the trumpet harder, faster and with more pure chops than virtually anyone else who ever picked up the horn. Hubbard was regaled as the most prolific, the most prodigious, the most celebrated, and probably the longest-lasting trumpet king of what came to be known as the hard bop era, performing a style of jazz that has exerted a disproportionately large influence on the young jazzmen of the Marsalis generation and beyond.

You can visit the official website: http://www.freddiehubbardmusic.com/ Here's one of his best known pieces, "Red Clay." RIP Freddie.