First Light (Freddie Hubbard album)

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First Light
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 1971 [1]
RecordedSeptember 14–16, 1971
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz-funk, post-bop, jazz fusion, soul jazz
Length42:55
Label CTI
Producer Creed Taylor
Freddie Hubbard chronology
Straight Life
(1971)
First Light
(1971)
Sky Dive
(1972)
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First Light is an album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. Recorded in 1971, it features string arrangements by Don Sebesky. It was his third album released on Creed Taylor's CTI label and features performances by Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Eric Gale, George Benson, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira and Richard Wyands. The album is part of a loose trilogy including his two previous records at the time, Red Clay and Straight Life . First Light won a 1972 Grammy Award for "Best Jazz Performance by a Group".

Contents

Track listing

  1. "First Light" - 11:05 (Hubbard)
  2. "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" (P. McCartney, L. McCartney) - 8:17
  3. "Moment to Moment" (Mancini, Mercer) - 5:43
  4. "Yesterday's Dreams" (Norman L. Martin, Sebesky) - 3:55
  5. "Lonely Town" [from On the Town] (Bernstein, Comden, Green) - 7:00
  6. "Fantasy in D" (Walton) - 6:55
  7. "First Light - live Detroit 4th March 1973" - 16:04 (Hubbard) Bonus track on CD

Personnel

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References

  1. CTI disco
  2. Jurek, Thom. First Light at AllMusic
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 734. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.