With Art Blakey and the All Star Jazz Messengers, 1984. (Benny Golson, Curtis Fuller, Walter Davis Jr, Buster Williams) Hub works up to and holds a spectacular high note at the end - it's a must-see.
And while we're appreciating the playing and writing presented in this video, let's appreciate the subject of the song -- the immortal Clifford Brown whose virtuosity on the trumpet and the ideas he played were matched only by the beauty of his humanity. In an era where many of his contemporaries were mired in heroin addiction, Brownie lived a clean life. His fellow musicians all loved him. When word of his death reached the jazz community, gigs were canceled because many musicians couldn't play
Let have a moment of silence for Freddie - I just heard that Freddie past away on Monday so I'm Dedicating this song and renaming it "I remember Freddie" RIP Freddie 12\29\08
Freddie is the king. i met him at the keystone corner jazz club in SF in 1984 or 83, just before it closed...he was gracious and down to earth, not puffed up with 'how dare you approach me' arrogance like so many stars......it makes me sad to think he'll never play again ... i regret only seeing him play once. Freddie Hubbard is simply the greatest jazz trumpet player in jazz history. graceful, powerful, majestic, and more. what a loss.......
I believe we are watching Freddy Hubbard here. Freddy was a very generous musician to up and coming players. He was an educator, a brilliant musician and a tireless perfector of his craft. He is not perhaps the greatest trumpet player that ever lived. That is too subjective a statement. However, he represented what it means to be a great musician - humility, reverence for what came before and eager to see what will come tomorrow. He makes me proud to be a trumpet player!
The first time I heard this song, I was a jazz combo concert and I cried like a baby! The melancholy of this song is just overwhelming, but the music is beautiful!
I remember you Freddie on a rainy Saturday night at Charlie O's Sherman Oaks, meeting you was amazing, now you`re gone but i`m sure you`re somewhere up there having a blast hanging out with Clifford,Miles,Bird,Trane,Dizzy,Monk,Horace,Chet,Blakey,Roach, Powell,Turrentine,Tony Williams,Duke,Sarah,Ella,Carmen,Billy,Lee,P.J. Jones,Kenny Clarke,Joe Henderson,Woody Shaw,Eric Dolphy,J.Mclean,P.Chambers,K. Dorham,C.Hawkins,Milt Jackson,Ray Brown,Hank Jones,etc.,tell all these cats hi for me would you..
Oh, Freddie. I'll miss you so much! Every note was like the stars in the sky and every breath was like the spaces in between. Infinite Respect and Gratitude
Freddie was the baddest the bad... as much as I love Miles and Clifford and Lee Morgan- Freddie's technique and chops TRUMPED them all - RIP my dear friend FH
this piece is such a perfection for trumpeters that they stick to playing the melody line as it is. this video is a gem, thank you so much for posting it christian
Grande, immenso Freddie, che mostri come con la tromba si possa dire tutto senza sfoggi puramente virtuosistici. Per me la migliore interpretazione in assoluto di I rimember Clifford.
As noted - written my Benny Golson who is still alive and playing at 87! Was here in Milwaukee this past Friday night and his website says next gig at Blue Note Tokyo 4/30 thru 5/5/16. Benny also wrote Killer Joe, Five Spot After Dark and many other great tunes. Clifford Brown was by all accounts one of the nicest guys in the world which really comes through musically.
I love Lee AND Freddie. I have no problem with Freddie's vibrato because his tone is so freakin' HUGE. He could make his trumpet sound like a fluegel when he played at the bottom of his horn
To me the way to to interpret this tune is to play it the way Clifford would have played it if he had lived. That is just my opinion. A great tune can allow for many interpretations and they can all be right.
@Praclik22 Amen to that. As a 15 year old Jazz trombonist from the Bay Area, I can tell that jazz has a very promising and bright future. From the sfjazz center to the Jazzschool in Berkely, I dont think the talent or passion for playing jazz will ever die, no matter how many Jazz greats of the past check out.
When we look at popular music these days it's usually pretty simple when it comes to notes and rhythm. That's why it's catchy and people like it. It is truly a sad sight to see that those simple songs are more popular than musical masterpieces such as this song. It breaks my heart to see one of the best genres of music disappear with the times.
Man.. I just found out today that Freddie had passed away. I'd been listening to him for years and to hear the news is really sad..last christmas it was Oscar, and now this. but they're in a better place right now, probably jamming as we speak RIP... Freddie Hubbard
Jazz will live, no matter what mass listens to. Good players still exists, ones that dont play academic stuff full of modals and scales pretending it to be soul, but will follow the old masters footsteps and play the good ol' jazz again. Thanks Freddie.
met him after the show backstage. don't remember how we got back there. we talked about the show, which was fantastic/larger than life, actually -- he complained about his lip even then, years before it got really bad--then what it was like to live in santa cruz (he asked me where I was from), and his upcoming show schedule. that was about it. i was pretty intimidated by his star presence so i didn't say much. my friend did most of the talking. we were kids standing in front of the wizard...
I think there are enough performers that are already trying to retain that value back again and with this positive mentality and I still listen to a lot of great music live. I can't agree with you here. For me, the only thing that kills the music we are talking about is spending more time lamenting about the present state and less showing our happiness from the music we can still listen to and we enjoy. Good music needs to be promoted positively and NOW, not as a good ol' times' commentary.My 2c
whites have no rear guard no side guard no top guard no low guard, this music called jazz and every other form of it belongs ncie and safely with the blacks and i sleep so much better, i thank them for not being the abuser! i thank them for elevating me, i thank them so much your beautiful! thanks for making me beautiful too! i owe every ounce of it to you guys! long live blacks! xx
I followed his career practially from the beginning and he went thro' a few stages like Picasso did because his work ran from raw; like an unpolished diamond when he was in the next stage he was polished - it took off with his 'First light' album. His ballads are well up there in the annals of horn playing as classics in melody, tone and lyricism
