Freddie Hubbard (1971)
Continuing my review of classical jazz. Freddie's work here is among his finest, and the best jazz trumpet playing on the planet. The intensity of the performance is sometimes undermined by the orchestration, which appears designed to soften the punch and pull the music into the dentist chair genre. But nothing can overcome Freddie's sweet playing, ranging from bell-clear to a breathiness that Chuck Mangione needed a flugelhorn to emulate a half-decade later.
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