Freddie Hubbard is Havin' Fun - Sugar with Stanley Turrentine 

What a clip! Jimmy, Stanley & Freddie are straight up smokin' and yes, freddie seems a little extra Jovial on this occasion! And the Japanese certainly get it & appreciate it, sadly even more so than us here in the West!

As a trumpet player, I listen to Freddie in absolute awe. Total commitment to playing a kickass solo every time he picked up the horn. It’s Lee Morgan’s swagger but with more chops. Not saying he’s “better”, but I always think of Lee when I hear Freddie.

Oh man - awesome! Everyone be killin’ it but dayyuummm - Stanley is just SO completely baadd-aasss! Listen to that sound!! So much meat, so phat, SO greazzy. He’s like BBQ for the ears! Think I just gained 20 pounds listening to that one solo….

Freddie hubbard killed it, he played with so much passion they say clouds caught on 🔥 that afternoon.

Love me some Stanley Turrentine, so hip and spicy 💔 WOWWW

Two Words: Awesome Performance!! And Congratulations to Kenny Burrell for turning 91 years Young this Year, and to Joe Chambers for turning 80 years Young this Year. May God continue to Bless them both!!

All are masters of their instruments, would have loved to be in such esteemed company. Music at its best.

All 'giants' on the stage. I was fortunate enough to meet everyone on that stage, except for Ron Carter, Joe Chambers and Jimmy Smith. I personally played with Freddie Hubbard in 1974 when he performed by composition, "For Freddie", in Oakland California. We became friends after that, and 'hung out' on occasions in Los Angeles when he was living off of Sepulveda Blvd in Van Nuys.

Hubbard might be my favorite trumpet. Eldridge another. Dizzy. All distinctive sounds. Hubbard the chops big time. Miss them all

the line up says it all....man oh man love it

Was für eine unglaubliche Band.Freddie ist grossartig!! Seine wunderbare Persönlichkeit...

From one of my favourite albums ever "The Baddest Turrentine" compilation

pure magic

It don't get better than this. Oh my gudnezzz....

I was at this concert. I had back stage access so was able to share a ride out with the musicians in a small bus. I sat next to Freddie and was shocked to see that he was indeed very loose.

Having made noise with a trumpet myself I have some idea how hard it is to play like that. But probably not for Freddie as he was superhuman anyway. I miss him greatly but we have still have recorded moments like this one. Thanks.

in 1989 I was at the performances of Freddie and Jimmy at the jazz festival in Tbilisi. It was fantastic!!!

A wonderful performance ! Sugar is such a great song to play & it have a groove that makes people dance & clap . Stanley was my favorite tenor saxophonist

I'm ashamed of not really speaking English but a big thank you for this sublime video ;-)

So Swingin Good!

Fantastic performance! Turrentine's "Sugar" was one of the first CTI albums I got from my parents. What a joy to see Hubbard and Turrentine reunited here. I love Stanley's phrasing and warm tone, he is one of my favorite tenor sax masters. And Freddie is my all-time favorite trumpeter, although I also love Miles, Chet, Lew Soloff and Randy Brecker. Never had the chance to meet Turrentine in person, but I attended many Hubbard's concerts, and we became friends after I produced a session he did with Brazilian guitarist Roberto Ávila. He was so proud of his CTI albums...! I remember that Freddie listened to the first CD reissue of "Sky Dive" in my house, and he was deeply moved, praising Don Sebesky's scores a lot.

Lord have mercy! Wish I was there! Gonna watch it again and get up and move! Wow!

Voila the 🎼 Fiesta with the best👌 That tenor sound, wah'ow! Freddie IS having a ball, of course. Lohvissimo!

Oh Yeah magistral

Fantastic . Thanks for sharing !

Yeah! Rock solid bass and drums. A huge crowd of jazz fans young and dancing! What times great for these guys. Got to see Freddie a few times Kenny B couple of times Stanley as well. Gracias Bret.

One of my favorites!!!🎷

awesome !!!

Joyful noise! I enjoyed the set up

WOW! Awesome!

This is Killin!

Masters, one and all. It`s so great that Ron is still doing the rounds still. What memories he must have through his incredible career. We`re blessed to have these recordings. Thank you for sharing them with us JVG.

Brett, you bring a lot of joy and happiness into this.

Always Great!

Yeah, man! That was cooking! Thanks for sharing!

This is an absolute killer lineup. I didn't description before watching video, so it was fun basket of easter egg surprises watching each performer come on screen.

Just too good

What a line up!

10:24 that´s straight up bad@$$

Amazing!!!

WONDERFUL!!!! Thank you for posting...

Great swinging stuff. Thank You

EXTRAORDINEERIO !!! 👏👏👏

Yes!!!

Whoa!

יפה מאוד !!! 👏

Nice, Brett. Thanks as always. I bought 2 if Stan's albums in 1980: SUGAR and SALT SONG. BOTH of them EXCELLENT. Just about every track. I regard Stanley as SEVERELY underrated. Both technically and emotionally speaking he's absolutely first class. (EVEN his CHRISTIAN contribution titled I TOLD JESUS, with his wife Shirley on organ. Incidentally Jimmy sounds comparable to Joey DeFrancesco here. Even though Jimmy literally INVENTED jazz Hammond organ playing, my impression has almost always been that later others easily surpassed him. Ths only piece that I'd REALLY enjoyed (prior to your sending this) by Jimmy is the all-too-short ORGAN GRINDER'S SWING, but it seems that by 1989, at least, that he's finally caught up with his "children": fast fluid, inventive, exciting and almost effortless-seeming. The true spirit of the most capable and addictive modern jazz, in fact, so THANKS AGAIN for sending!! 👍👍👍😎😎😎

Such a band

Thanks, Bret!

Right there

1989 I was in Mt Fuji Jazz Festival

Wow! If this not the total killer crew I m not the Big Dreddie! Absolute exuberance and virtuosity by all ! 500 cool points!😎😎

...went there (Guanajuato) over 14 years ago with my ex when I was living in San Luis Potosí. ...and I'll be in Guadalajara next week. Before the pandemic, I photographed jazz musicians in several countries. Chao. Retired Vietnam era veteran, ex Detroiter, expatriate currently living in Colombia and México...permanently.

Not a bad band. :) Wow!

👍

Sugar is more like '71. I bought it at that time....my mom gave some flak about the album cover. Lol

❤️👂🏽 🎺 🎹 🎶🎸🎷🥁🎵

One of the last great years for Freddie sadly, by the early 90's his chops were gone due to his lip.

Bret, will you be able to video excerpts from some of the arts events at the festival down in your town to show us please?

Man, Freddie got HOUSE!! 😅😅

Did Freddie he tell KB to lay out?

Freddie was great musican , one of greatest! ...seems clashes with rhythm I think guitar chunks a bit 🤔 he's trying to fix them over the solo he does . Cool stuff

No guitar solo 😢??

Stanley should change name of tune for Wasabi

Compare Freddie's showmanship with Miles'. Probably a good thing. What worked for Miles--the ultimate King of Cool and Prince of Darkness--didn't always translate to guys trying to be him in the bright light of day.

Freddie Hubbard amazing, shame he messed his lips.

American musicians can't "samba", Brazilian musicians can't "swing" and poor Japanese fans seem to think that you should clap on the downbeat, it's funny to watch them, trying to dance to the wrong beat. There is surely somethings in Japanese music and way of listening, that I wouldn't be able to feel or understand, not just because I'm not even familiar with any kind of Japanese music, but also because, these kinds of peculiarities are very subtle but deeply rooted, perhaps because, most cultures, evolved separate from each other, until the advent of telecommunications (see, I didn't know that there were two "ems" in communication, why ? 1, because I'm Portuguese and 2, why are there two "ems" ?)