Freddie Hubbard is a conundrum. His style has varied significantly over the years, as though he were unsure of himself at a deep level. There were the Blue Note years, then the funk years, where he ...

On April 10, 1967, a not-quite-30-year-old Freddie Hubbard delivered a virtuosic performance that blew the proverbial roof off a Bronx jazz club. From an office at the Blue Morocco, a sound engineer ...

Jazz musician Freddie Hubbard, who was born and raised in Indianapolis, has long been revered as one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time. Among a fulsome list of accolades are a Grammy Award ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, whose virtuosity earned him jazz royalty status in the 1960s and whose commercial recordings in the ’70s made him a fusion star, died Monday at the age of 70. He died in ...

Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard (1938 -2008) began his professional jazz journey in 1960 as a full-blooded hard bopper, recording his first album in that year for Blue Note Records, Open Sesame. Much of the ...