Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life

[penlint]

YOU said it MAMA! I am totally with you !!! I get so frustrated sometimes, I have hundreds of tv channels and NOT ONE has any show on Jazz!!!!!!!!!!!

[Funkenstein256]

great lineup. 

[soulgriot]

this is completely off the chain!!!

[mazoquiste]

Ufffffffffffffffff que deliciaaaaa!

[VohnkarTheGreat]

It's gotta be awesome to have Return to Forever as your rhythm section!

[electrickabuki]

airto is good old mental.....love that guy

[miniaturelint]

love this rendition of the song

[sms1189]

god stanley clarke and freddie are on point!!

[blondstallion]

needs more cowbell

[PapaLuvTLC]

FabFreddie.

=

TLC

[tejastiger61]

This is so sweet ...Thank you  a million for sharing this GEM.... beautiful

[trumpetids]

now this guy is a great player! My fav! Hubbard

[hedjunta]

Stanley Clarke is Goin' off !

[trumpetids]

Diggin this groove

[phatstevie2]

At 3:07 he turned it up a notch. Fantastic !

[anandanaga999]

Play Coltrane OLE" ABOUT AMINUTE add STRAIGHT LIFE rught on top as a montaege

[DUANESKEE]

Probably the most technically gifted trumpet player ever. R.I.P. Freddie Hubbard.

[mARCarchitectureaz]

wow, how do you find this stuff? very cool. you tube is great! thx very much for posting!

[TheJomogogo]

So sad that nig music today has devolved to crap rap hip hop bullshit

[aliciaVstarress]

amazing the notes sound so fluid...

[DUANESKEE]

Freddie was at the top of his game here. Great sound from the master. R.I.P.  Freddie.

[oldschoolbbass]

Nice bass work by the great stanley clarke,Airto is amazing as always

[betaultragroove]

@oldschoolbbass fuckin' A right!! State of Art!!!

[TheRumster]

This video is burnin! And wow... everyone's so young. Such good stuff.... makes me want to work harder!

[dankeewolnir4042]

lol that percussion rig that Airto is playing during his solo is like some martial arts dummy that he's practicing on...

[intrepidpooch]

6:05 Whoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[pogodude725]

What a sick lineup

[betaultragroove]

isn't quincy jones the host?

[deepkeel65]

@betaultragroove Yes, Quincy Jones hosts.

[Mamasan41]

We need a Downbeat show now. I am tired of all these lame reality shows, GET SOME CLASS ON TELEVISION.

[TheRumster]

@Mamasan41 i could not vote you up enough...

[fulzgy]

@Mamasan41 Yeah I guess this is back when the mainstream audience had taste......now our "music" television channels show Jersey Shore

[townsend316]

@Mamasan41 Thank you for writing what I have been thinking since Big Fucking brother and the rest of the shit came out!!!

[selpingos]

@Mamasan41 totally agree with that. Freddie and gang make real reality tv.

[1GlenAlan]

@Mamasan41

[GLEN FROM COMPTON]

I hear ya! It don't get no "REALER" than this!

[madflavason]

WOW...........Amazing from start to finish! Great post.

Thank you!

[MrErosseau]

Wow. Soooo on his game.

[mauricebrownmusic]

He's my #1 influence! Freddie's the man!

[MrSneakytrout]

AWESOME

[teemingup]

Wow. His chops still up there. And how...

[IvoryK2]

Joe Hendersn / George Benson / Herbbie Hancock / Ron Carter / Jack Dejohnette / Richie Landrum / Weldon Irvine in 1970 is also great , I guess

[oldschoolbbass]

Wow Freddie basically has the original line up of Return To Forvever.Only Flora Purim(Airto's wife), and Joe Farrell are missing.I love this performance. Does anyone know if the show is available on DVD?Sure wouldnt mind having a copy.

[veender]

NICE!

[coopyfenderbeupus]

God I love Freddie. He sure could play the trumpet.

[bennysaxe]

Rest in Peace Freddie. You have kept me going

[Psqwall]

Can anyone tell me why a Maestro w1 is sitting on the amp in the background? I feel like Jazz artists of this era all had one of those but did not really use it.RIP Freddie!

[Jonne021]

I wonder the same thing, he does not seem to use it, but they sure look good :)

[IndependentGeorge76]

what a tone - such warmth. great footage, thanks for posting

[ToothieSatan]

Indeed. I really love this video and the sound of Freddie

[IvoryK2]

this is better than 1970's at Van Gelder studio, I guess.

[ocsisboy08]

I love that hippie in the background shakin' to the rhythm, RIP Freddie :(

[MrDazzman]

that's airto moreira

[robertclemon]

play da shit

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

THX GALORE -- on my blog (see profile), you will find a nice appraisal of Freddie.

See you,

Bruno Leicht

[obsidiansands1]

Killer line-up!

RIP Freddie, Gabriel ain't gonna have nothin' on you my man.....

[Globaljazzer500]

Skagly by Freddie Hubbard is my all time favvorite? The sustained attack is scary but dare I say life changing! Am so sad he is gone,a big heart, big sound, ... and a big loss. .

[billaverbach]

Freddie was great! Especially with Art Blakey's group. Sing Me A Song of Songmi was a great album. But what is recorded often is what sells and the best "goes into the air and can never be heard again" according to Eric Dolphy. How true!

Go hear some live music!

Support Live Music.

Support local musicians.

They may not always be the best but they are the carriers of the torch.

Think outside the Triangle

[kotep777]

RIP Freddie......regardless of what he did in the 80s 90s

he was a MONSTER in the 70s

thank you for all your amazing playing.....blew this 15 year old hip hop brain out in the early 90s

what a loss

[futboler454]

He was already a monster in the 60's.

[RANDOMLANDcirca]

DEFINITELY!!!!!!

[mareath]

joder que bueno era

[robertclemon]

Freddie was ready

[JTB860]

First of all, you have absolutely no respect for anyone including yourself, and second, Freddie Hubbard is undeniably one of the greatest musicians and trumpeters EVER! I dare you to play anything that stands up musically to him or anyone else in this video

[KlausVanBrueggen]

Freddie! Always Freddie.

[HoustonMills]

Didn't you just use this childish joke on the "I Remember Clifford" video? Get a life or please die before 70! "LMAO!!!"

[C0NTR4B455]

I love Freddie..Gone not forgotten.

[samsamba08]

May your journey into the other side be peaceful, brother Freddie. Rest In Peace, Freddie Hubbard.

DURING MANKIND, ONLY five TRUMPET PLAYERS HAVE CHANGED THE JAZZ LANDSCAPE PERMANENTLY: Louis Armstrong, Dizze Gillespie, Miles Davis, Woody Shaw and Freddie Hubbard.

[AS5A]

Woody Shaw is great, but if you're going to put him in your pantheon, why not include Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan?

[samsamba08]

Well Clifford maybe (after all, Freddie was influenced by him), but in terms of a unique sound and influence on others, I don't see Lee Morgan in there. Woody Shaw for instance is in a whole different galaxy - nobody sounds like him, they never did and no one still does. I included those guys based on that criteria. This doesn't mean I don't love Lee Morgan's albums and his compositions as well, I do...

[bigbadsnowman]

booker little?

[funkagent]

What do you think about Art Farmer, Clark Terry and Roy Eldrige. Not as landscape changers necessarily but in general?

[samsamba08]

Well, out of those guys, I prefer Clark Terry. After all, both Quincy Jones and Miles Davis credit him as a major influence; I think Terry even informally taught Miles when he was still in St.Louis.

[thebeastpwner]

why would you compare them??

[zman0457]

RIP.  A giant player!

[jgsuperpants]

RIP, one of the true greats.

[PaGiw]

RIP Freddy Hubbard!

I just read that he died this morning....

May he have a good journey!

[Jebowski]

ah just realized Airto was drumming for Chick in Seattle too. Nice.

[Jebowski]

mmmmm Freddy, that air hits ya from out of that horn like a fuckin laser. And Chick's got those cool fills... just saw Chick last year in Seattle... I rather seeing someone like Freddy up in front though.

[lucnorman]

este es el que hizo hub tones y breaking point? dammmmmm como back to blue note

[bradleyt1]

burnin!

[flyagaric23]

everybody lets loose, Percussion! word.

[fiddlercrab3]

This vid blows me away every time I watch. Freddie's cookin', Chick has tasty fills, Stanley Clarke performs pretty much superhuman feats of bassline (and is super tight with Lenny!), and of course, who else has a metal robot percussion rig but Airto?

[lorenzini]

omg Airto playing percussion on a metal woman.

[emtube]

More cowbell!

[yulelovethebeats]

Smokingly smooth...yeah.

[KOKOYAMS]

this is not street life.

[ibbumpn]

that's cause it's straight life

[CadillacL]

Listen to that groove. That bassist is funky. Freddie playing the way only he can play.

[dwightkschrute80]

Freddie's music brings my soul to rest. Whatever the stresses of the day, Freddie and other jazz men and women like him help bring relaxation and serenity. Just so soothing.

[atvfreelife]

amen to that. is it your imagination, or are we, and by we I mean you mostly, a really strange group of folk?

[ox092]

@dwightkschrute80 agreed. he plays with such great soul and passion.

[ox092]

@dwightkschrute80 agreed Freddie has great tone which isn't bothersome.

[Pupilavideos]

who is the percusionist?

[murrayrothstein]

Airto Moreira is the percussionist.

[Pupilavideos]

En serio! No lo reconocí! está muy joven ahí!

[hallmanjon]

that groove at 3:36 is so funky it made my speakers stink. that's just plain dirty.

[noelevan]

I grew up listening to airto's Lp's as a kid,

that was some wild shit watching it on video.

Great stuff!

[Trumpetplayer60076]

I believe that's Airto on percussion.

[Trumpetplayer60076]

That was Quincy Jones doing the introduction. Freddie was just SO AMAZING!!!

[nyshoefly]

CLARKE IS PLAYING some weird shit. sounds cracked out.

[wittyman37]

funky freddie man, this is awsome stuff . . . and the outfits are sweet too man!

[MovieVidKing]

Wow! How did you come by the DownBeat series of performance?

[bteiv676]

Is there anyway to lighten some of these youtube videos? Anyhelp out there?

[BlingMasterFunk]

Down Beat was such an awesome show! And look at Airto... I think he was recording with Deodato around this time too. What a wonderful performance eh? Did you know that Freddie busted his lip one time live and couldn't play for 2 months? Ridiculousness...

[dandiacal]

Does anyone know the touring personnel for Freddie in

[gennnnnnnnnn]

yeahhh!

[otnas01]

The epitomy of HIP!!!!

[kokopeli27]

What a great lineup. And even though the tempo here is faster than the original recording of Straight Life, Freddie's still able to wail like a mofo!

[Stonetrumpet]

awesome

[pauldrumsfunk]

dude ate some acid

[Trumpetplayer60076]

GREAT! Thanks so much for posting. Freddie is one of my all time favorites! He was amazingly influential on me and countless other horn players.

[GaiusAntarcticus]

Great stuff - dig that 70s setting.

[olivierbarjot]

I'm not sure how I feel about Freddie's 'Viva Las Vegas' shirt......

[Ugabugar12]

MY GOD.

Nothing better on the trumpet.

[TupolevTech]

All my jazz heroes together! Excelent post Eatsleep!

[tapjet]

that was just sick !!

[ambroulard]

It looks like Lenny White- It's great- but I do like Ron Carters acoustic work on the album a bit better than the sound that Stanleys getting here.

[fjdmusicman]

Stanley is using an up-beat feel, starting the bass line on the up beat giving it a faster feel, not solaid back as Ron... I dig em both, this record was a big deal to me in 1974, all the cti stuff was new sounding, fresh fusion that now has grown so stale wonder bread toasting sounds better... downbeats gives this 4 stars..

[MovieVidKing]

That's how funk was diagramed - on the ONE! Geo. Clinton figured it out. Now its the signature of Funk/P-Funk.

[OleDiz]

George Clinton figured it out when James Brown's horn section told him about it when they were recording "America Eats Its Young." Clinton was an advocate but not the originator.

[MovieVidKing]

I appreciate that tidbit! JB and his horn section of Fred Wesley & Maceo really added the accents and color for the sound at that time. Geo. Clinton was a follower/bandmate of JB as well as Bootsy. JB's influence is in GC's P-Funk! How you like that JB in your Funk!!

[sandrobassi]

Amazing band as well. Semms like the early Return to Forever backing up.

Airto and Stanley Clarke I recognize, but there's the drummer who looks like Lenny White and the Key player isn't Chick Corea?

[sandrobassi]

Airtos's perfonmance is astonishing!!!

[raibri]

when music was real music... I wish I was born 10 years earlier. *sigh*

[danelectroman70]

the only trumpet player on a par with Miles Davis.

[oreojazz]

what about cliffoerd brown? or lee morghan or KD. are you joking me? you can barely even compare hubbard and miles man im not trying to be mean i am just saying that no matter what anyone thinks there were other jazz players out there then miles davis.

[danelectroman70]

absolutely. i spoke too soon. it's just that i like those two the best and i think that they are still more recognizable to today's jazz audience than perhaps the ones you mentioned. which gives more creedence to their importance to jazz itself. not that Clifford Brown or Lee Morgan are slouches. i like the horn players in James Brown's bands as well.

[harryshand]

God I love youtube!

[Pe499]

great

[inversek]

wow

[facundo1963]

Kickin' it

[norsklatino]

Stanley Clarke on bass

[MusicLiberates]

That's great! Where did you get this? I remember seeing this on TV when I was a kid - about 1977. It was part of a show the DownBeat magazine put on. That was Quincy Jones introducing Freddie. Sure would love to see the rest of that great Downbeat program.

[gustavoloula]

Forró!

[ethnotime]

Wow! Freddie sounds so good. So does the band. Thank you for posting this.

[CJ81]

great vid! Glad it was some CTI era stuff, most of Freddie's Columbia stuff stunk outside of VSOP and "Super Blue" which has not yet been out on CD.

[orangefunk]

You think High Energy stunk? It was killer!

[eatsleeptrumpet]

lenny white

[thedwork]

chick corea is playing electric piano here. not sure who's playng drums. jack? there's that one second where they show him from the side, but i can't really see...

[wigginsdesign]

Great clip thanks. Incredible lineup. Airto is a rhythmic genius. Who's on drums and keys?

[kalcom]

Freddie in great form, I love 70,s freddie hubbard