High Energy (Freddie Hubbard album)

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High Energy
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Studio album by
Freddie Hubbard
ReleasedSummer 1974, probably August [1]
RecordedApril 29-May 2, 1974
Studio Sunset Sound Recorders, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length40:59
Label Columbia
KC 33048
Producer Paul Rothchild
Freddie Hubbard chronology
Polar AC
(1973)		High Energy
(1974)		 Gleam
(1975)
Professional ratings
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High Energy is a studio album recorded in 1974 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. [4] It was first studio album released on the Columbia label and features performances by Hubbard, Joe Sample, George Cables, Junior Cook, Ernie Watts, Pete Christlieb, and Ian Underwood.

Contents

Reception

A reviewer of Dusty Groove wrote "Sweet electric Freddie Hubbard – a wonderfully laidback session that's filled with space and soul – hardly what you'd expect from the title! The album follows nicely in the style that Hubbard hit at CTI – an openly flowing groove that has Freddie's trumpet on top of long electric piano lines from George Cables, with occasional fuller backings to flesh out the sound! Arrangements are by Dale Oehler, who's conducting a larger group behind a core quintet that also features excellent reeds from Junior Cook – possibly one of his strongest (and only) appearances on an electric date like this. Cables is the champ, though – and really makes the set cook by changing the vibe strongly with his keys – setting a tone for Freddie throughout." [5] AllMusic's Scott Yanow commented One of Freddie Hubbard's few decent efforts during his very commercial period with Columbia, this LP found his quintet (with tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook and keyboardist George Cables) joined by a small orchestra and a string section on a set of potentially dismal material." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Camel Rise" (George Cables) - 6:21
  2. "Black Maybe" (Wonder) - 4:55
  3. "Baraka Sasa" (Hubbard) - 10:26
  4. "Crisis" (Hubbard) - 5:45
  5. "Ebony Moonbeams" (Cables) - 6:57
  6. "Too High" (Wonder) - 6:35

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Aug 24, 1974
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "High Energy - Freddie Hubbard | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ "Soul Brothers Top 10 Jazz". Jet . Johnson Publishing Company: 63. 17 October 1974. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  5. ↑ "Freddie Hubbard : High Energy (LP, Vinyl record album)". Dusty Groove . Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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