Freddie Hubbard - Hubtones

From the 1987 Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival - with James Spaulding, alto sax; Renee Rosnes, piano; Kenny Davis, bass; Ralph Peterson, drums. Check out the first few choruses of Freddie's solo, the rhythm section is all over the place on the form and Freddie vibes the hell out of them! It's hilarious... Poor Renee is the last one back on track, he shoots her a glare that could shatter glass.

To quote the man himself, "It's not that easy to play with Freddie Hubbard... ain't that hard either!"

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[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,

[psander78]

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

[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.

[polkadots1234555]

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