Freddie Hubbard is a conundrum. His style has varied significantly over the years, as though he were unsure of himself at a deep level. There were the Blue Note years, then the funk years, where he ...

It is something of a challenge to review Freddie Hubbard's work from the early 1980s. He had changed direction in the early 1970s with Red Clay (CTI, 1970) moving toward soul-jazz and jazz-rock, ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, whose virtuosity earned him jazz royalty status in the 1960s and whose commercial recordings in the ’70s made him a fusion star, died Monday at the age of 70. He died in ...