Hub of Hubbard

Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet); Eddie Daniels (tenor saxophone); Roland Hanna (piano); Louis Hayes (drums).
Audio Remasterers: Dirk Sommer; Christoph Stickel.
Liner Note Authors: Stefan Franzen; Manfred Schoof.
Recording information: MPS-Studio, Villingen (12/09/1969).
Photographers: Josef Werkmeister; Atelier F. Hugel.
Translators: O.E. Syman; Martin Cook.
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, whose Atlantic recordings had straddled the boundary between hard bop and the avant-garde, sticks to bebop on this excellent recording. Performing in a quintet with tenor-saxophonist Eddie Daniels (no clarinet this time), pianist Roland Hanna, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Louis Hayes, Hubbard is in top form on four selections: "Without a Song," a ridiculously uptempo "Just One of Those Things," "Blues for Duane" and a ballad rendition of "The Things We Did Last Summer." ~ Scott Yanow