Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones

[TheJazzSwings]

Man, these guys are always just gonna be like this. Not even worth arguing about. I got stuff to practice.

[PapaLuvTLC]

FabFreddie.

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TLC

[TJSax1986]

Oh SHit..... And HE STILL SWINGS HARD AS BALLS

[Cymbalgroove]

I agree with postbop as jazz musicians we all make mistakes. It is weird they screwed up a blues but hey shit happens. I hate to judge any musician on one performance or be judged myself on one performance.

[badddnote]

Maybe he thought what everyone else was playing was hip.....maybe he was bugged at one of the TV camera people?

[ajr0988]

No messing around he injured his lip playing, love what you do, do what you love!

[James9533]

People are bagging freddie but I understand where he's coming from. Think of how pissed off you get (assuming you're even a musician) when you're about to come up on an improv section and your pianist or drummer fucks things up for you. It's irritating to say the least.

People don't realize that if the drummer or pianist fuck up ONE change or rhythm that it throws the entire song off.

[tpt1111]

It's blues in Bb...How can much lesser players get lost?

Maybe if they stopped trying so hard to be hip and just play, this would'nt have happened..

Freddie could be an asshole, but he had every reason to be pissed off...

It got to a point that none of it was any good, just some ideas that lacked any real key center..

I loved Freddie's playing, but this was one that could easily be forgotten..

[denzelsnipes69]

If Hubbard had just kept playing instead of acting like a jerk, not many would've noticed they'd messed up.

[gregopvuur]

@jerec576 : you are correct. freddie hubbard plays trumpet. sometimes context clues can help us determine those sorts of things, i.e., the video is titled "Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones" and the camera is on a man playing trumpet for nearly the entire video. One may then deduce that the star of the video is Freddie Hubbard and that he is playing trumpet. No worries, though, that's just what happens on YouTube!

[jerec576]

the description doesnt list what instrument hubbard is on...

[intrepidpooch]

Ralph was laying it down, but poor Renee and Kenny on here, lol! Happens to the best of us sometimes, and as Freddie put it: "It's not that easy to play with Freddie Hubbard... ain't that hard either!"

[staysea36]

one of the cooooleest cats ever too bad they dont make them anymore

[ivantpt89]

lol, had so much in mind he forgot where the tune was. doesn't matter though.

[polkadots1234555]

@ivantpt89 other way around. renee and kenny were playing the wrong changes.

[B00718]

badass motherfucker on trumpet

[denzelsnipes69]

Hubbard behaving badly.

[orjazzmicintentions]

He behaves badly every time he picks up a a trumpet!! I don't mind!

[donotclickonthis]

im a little suprised they lost the form on a blues

[CaptainJazz92]

Ouch... it just makes you uncomfortable watching the beginning, but they sure make up for it later on!

[ijkoool69]

I was just thinking he needs to sort out his specs when suddenly he throws them off at 3:36

[denzelsnipes69]

LoL @ poor Rene Rosnes at 4:46. Tough day on the job.

[denzelsnipes69]

Freddie Hubbard was acting like an asshole.

[carsleuth]

@denzelsnipes69 No, not an asshole... a badass...

[postbop]

Every musician on that bandstand is world-class. For those watching who aren't jazz musicians, this happens to all of us; sometimes WE goof up, sometimes it's someone else in the group and is up to the rest of us to help that person along for the betterment of the music being played. If you are a jazz musician and passing heavy judgment, be careful: the jazz karma troll will be sitting in on your gig sometime soon, and he likes to play Giant Steps at quarter note=400,

[bootysurgeon]

That's true as far as I know -- Kenny Davis is fantastic, and Ralph Peterson is one of the best drummers working today. I couldn't even hear how they pissed off Freddie.

[latebop]

Very well put, postbop.

[intrepidpooch]

@postbop Great comment, LOL!

[itsbenagain]

haha i've never seen so much tension in a combo

[waldabeast]

freddies trumpet is tight

[cschamp93]

Lol he was like Im Freddie Hubbard i dont need no Fucking Glasses. Then throws them on the ground.

Man i love listening to him

[itsbenagain]

haha and spaulding picks them up off the ground. i think i may have heard about this from someone, hadn't seen it though!

[cschamp93]

Lol yea he was nervous about it to

[SERiF7321]

a tight start; then it gets funny. then it's just... thrilling! Freddie...my goodness...  plays like a man possessed sometimes.

[vastusinternus]

In minute 1:19 Freddie is thinking, "gosh, I wish Clifford Jarvis and Herbie Hancock were here!"

[MagosSaul]

hahaaa yeah^^

[fluffybal]

I dont understand what is happening in the beginning.

[oopon1]

rhythm section lost the form and freddie said WHATSFUCKINGOINON??!!

[jerec576]

I love how theyres always an asshole that goes 'YEAH!' when someone messes up.

[a7secondsfan]

i was watching the grammys tonight and saw them saluting Freddie Hubbard and I got so confused...i can't believe i didn't hear about his heart complications....what a legend man...."it ain't hard to play with freddie...but it certainly ain't easy either!" rip....

[aufdeutschsagiches]

das ist ja sieberne scheiSSe!

[cujazztrpt]

So sad to hear that he passed away already..another giant gone. RIP.

[jerec576]

He was one of the real giants

[joshuasound]

G-d bless freddie hubbard.

[Jestunes]

Freddie inspired me to play flugel and trumpet. I even have a picture with him in New York. I loved him stretching out to reach those high notes. It felt as if his playing represented life. You try as much as you can to succeed in everything you do, but you can't do everything. The main thing was to attempt and not regret. Even in your experimenting you can sometimes discover some beautiful things that amaze even yourself. That was the beauty of my friend Freddie. I'm going to miss him!

[madscout96]

It sucks that Freddie's gone.

It also sucks that I didn't find out he died until just now (3 days after he died).  Of all the awesome trumpet players that ever lived, he's the one i wish I could play like the most. RIP Freddie

[jerec576]

Wow, i didnt know either... That sucks

[KlausVanBrueggen]

Awesome, excellent video!

[jazzvisionband]

Freddie Hubbard greatly inspired me to play this music callad jazz ! First of his records I`ve ever heard was as this video here entitled Hub Tones. I`m fortunate and very happy to be able to meet him in person. Rest in peace Freddie. I love you forever ! Have a Happy New Year in Heaven

[divajc]

Sweet Return

[psander78]

RIP to one of the greatest jazz men to walk the planet.

[ox092]

@psander78 agreed. better than miles and better than dizzy i think.

[staysea36]

@ox092 one coooool cat

[WaveRoofer]

Just heard virtuoso musician Freddie Hubbard passed away ! Man...slowly all that great jazz muzzo´s of the 50´s and 60´s are leaving planet earth, one more hard bopper gone !

Let´s stick to the thought Freddie is now joining that great session band way up with Parker, Getz, Coltrane, Navarro, Brown etc !

It´s natures way, but sometimes it sucks !

[conmanmusic]

To think he's gone... I just only talked to him about a month ago. So sad...

[elysiumstarz]

RIP!

[atpal]

RIP Freddie

[mrpossibilities]

Hey, all bands have moments like these. Hubbard haters, FUCK OFF

[remilburne7]

they were in fact lost. listen to the cd recording, and you can feel where its supposed to be. Bass was the first off, that's where is messed up, i think they had trouble feeling the time in relation to the melody. Secondly, Hubbard is a legend. Check him out in his prime, very few come close to that. Freddie is one of the biggest influences on the Nicholas paytons and roy hargroves of today, no doubt.

[JAZZI40]

F.Hubbart..In my opition,at early 60`s he was in his best.He got a real pressure in his tight solos.Not the best,but very good trumpet player..

[slackebacker]

that man's always been way overrated,

he blows all the bad ugly notes,

there are much better trumpeteers,

like De Gebroeders Brouwer from holland!

[dqjazz]

Your joking. Freddie Hubbard shaped the sound for modern jazz trumpet playing. Nobody has come close to what he can do.

[mak04005]

honestly, listen to the head. it's a 6-bar phrase repeated 4 times that sounds like an improvised solo, especially with hubbard's embellishments that sound more like random squeaks than a melody. The bass and keys players didn't come in together but they did a fantastic job of recovering and keeping up the level of intensity.

[xeno087]

I love at 3:36 where he throws his glasses on the floor! Great player, great solo

[TerryStJean]

Wait, I just fastforwarded...forget it. He had lip.

[TerryStJean]

I think there was something wron with his lip. He had no lip to play.

[kingpleasure]

James Spaulding is an incredible alto player and was unfortunately not given the attention he should have received. Check out his work with Wayne Shorter on many Blue Note albums to hear what I mean.

[elsegno]

Why does this kind of video is incomplete?

[RBFJediBond]

He is the man. Deffinatly my trumpet playing idol. The dude is a straight up ledgend!

[bigbankX]

I use to hear hubtones in my sleep

[kingpleasure]

I loved this number so much that I made the head my ringtone. That was a big mistake because after a year of that, everytime I listened to the song on the album I thought my cell was ringing.

[Azorka82]

It does seem a difficult performance. But I like it. My favorite jazz musician. Were those charity glasses? Ha ha. They look like the 2 for 1 type, I had a pair like those years ago. Glad he took them off. It came together well after the glasses were off.

[Jazzanswer]

It's not difficult to play with Freddie Hubbard.

What confused the rhythm section is the line "Hubtones".

It is very complex and it is easy to see how anyone unfamiliar with it could find it hard to feel where "one" is.

Once everyone finds "one", the rest is easy and Freddie soars.

[nsilveira1216]

its a blues. how could they possibly get lost.

[badnote]

Oh man they didn't get lost, you just can't hear it.

[coolstruttin1]

They did get lost. If you listen to the piano player she plays the same two bars twice in a row b/c she realized that she was two measures ahead of herself. That was right before Freddie sent her a look of death lol.

[JazzMaster1955]

These are great musicians. It shows that it can happen to anyone.

But had I been Freddie in the position of being on Front Street with the form going bad, I wouldn't have been so pleased myself.

It sure came together, though, and Freddie is hot.

[smoothdee1]

man he`s not wasted just teeded off,freddie`s a great piano player and the rythm section was off to a bad start,the two fingers were to indicate the second chourus.great playing in spite of a rough start.

[mcintosh2k]

man,he looks wasted

[perovaas]

Ralph Peterson is all there, though. Poor Renee, indeed. Now... Hubard solo was good. miss Spaulding´s.

[MovieVidKing]

Play it! Don't spray it...!

Leadership is tough when you are in a set that is under the prying eyes of the authorities. It was a fluke that the first two bars went on that way because of a miscue in tempo. The drummer kicked it off and the rhthym did'nt catch up! Freddie knew it was off from the jump so he was queing them to get back in two measures of "feel beats" so everyone could be together.

[lorenzini]

No listen.. The problem is they lost the form on a god damn blues. I would be pissed too, especially if it was my gig.

[chc0423]

What's the 2 fingers for?

[lorenzini]

who knows.. I thought it meant start of the 2nd chorus? Or maybe II/V to the top of the tune. Maybe it means, look at these eyes, they shoot lazers!

[Torpeeep]

Allways respect an artist for his bright moments.. and Freddie hava a lot. I love all his good music and ignore the worst

[lorenzini]

And actually, what Freddie did play here was glorious! He was just pissed.

[klactv]

I read in a book on jazz that Freddie Hubbard played commercially for some years and then had difficulty playing jazz again. Perhaps that is true and this video may be an example. At any rate he doesn't look happy; is he contemplating in what style to play? Here he sounds less boppish and farther out than he used to, but I wonder if that is an improvement. I greatly admired him when he was with Blakey.

[crackerjazz]

I've been trying to figure out what threw everything out of whack during the first two choruses. Hubbard's last two notes of the theme was actually the start of the chorus. But the bass player wasn't able to nail that down and started later. Then on Eb7, the bass player suddenly plays II-V. Gee, that would throw anyone off.

[gsgrulloni]

haha thats funny. renee wasnt the last to catch on, rather freddie was the last to *catch up and coorporate...he seems arrogant

[lorenzini]

no, she was the last to catch up.

[nsilveira1216]

you honestly think freddie hubbard was lost? its not his job to catch up to a band who cant play a blues. he's not arrogant at all, and if he was, he has every right to be.

[pianoanimal09]

freddie's fuckin PISSED!

[coolbraz]

Of course he is... he's a trumpet player.

[Bertiklein]

Great performance...

[jonsilence]

A legend but this shows either early signs of his slide down OR he was just pissed off about the band or whatever. Does seem t pull it together a few mintes in but its a shaky start and he looks f'd up about something. But ain't no one like the Hub.

[swedenstu]

This is angry jazz. And I love angry jazz. :D

[zacary9bibi1]

I'm a thankful fan ,,, and worship at the altar of just about everything he did, but I don't really dig this.

[phumlanimtiti]

the cameranam should backoff a bit.

[phumlanimtiti]

the cameranam should backoff a bit.

[Superphilipp]

Poor camera guy

[VoteForMiles89]

the first time i saw it i thought he had injured his lip or something

[tapjet]

when he took the glasses of it was on!!

[anarchy378]

megane!megane!

[strozier]

Freddie taking a look a his trumpet asif to say "is it me?"

[HADJEE]

I thought he was checking his tuning slide.

[rsalvucc]

Ouch. That felt wrong from the start. 2 fingers--2 flats...

[ScreaminDeamon4lyfe]

ha it looks like those glasses were finally too much for freddie lol...i would've been chucked 'em

[CJ81]

how could you miss on a blues? Kenny Davis was not in the right place at all,lol.

[Shemp56]

Bass player gets lost on a 12 bar blues....YIKES!!!

[kalcom]

If looks could kill