In Memoriam: Freddie Hubbard 1938-2008
Yesterday, jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard died, after suffering a heart attack in November. He was 70 years old. He may never have commanded the sort of adulation reserved for contemporaries like Miles Davis or John Coltrane (who, along with pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, was one of Hubbard’s more frequent collaborators), and maybe that’s because for the bulk of his latter-day career, his focus was less on the groundbreaking hard-bop that made him […]