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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 12 reviews)
Sales Rank: 13195
Category: Music
Artists: Freddie Hubbard, Freddie Hubbard
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Studio: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Label: Blue Note Records
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
MPN: 95341
UPC: 072434953412
EAN: 0072434953412
ASIN: B00005UOKP
Release Date: January 29, 2002
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 4.5 stars August 30, 2004
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Great recording with an equally great remaster. But to me, this is not as good as hub-tones, my all time favourite Freddie recording. Now, what I enjoy the most about this session is probably Tina Brooks. He was one of the greatest sax players of the time, with a unique voice and style, that was tragically underrecorded. You can check him out with Jimmy Smith in the Sermon, and rumor is, True Blue will be remastered shortly.
60s Jazz Masterpiece. December 27, 2003
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a spotless record. Freddie Hubbard's playing is hot, and the band is very tight. The title track and "All or Nothing at All" show off his musical ability as well as any recording he did. This is a fabulous record to demonstrate what kind of instrument the jazz trumpet can be. I recommend it to anyone interested in trumpet or in the classic period of jazz recording.
Knotted July 30, 2003
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
You like tight? Listen to this exceptional session led by a trumpet player who receives nowhere near the recogition he richly deserves. This is absolutely a gem of release. Thank you Kenny Mathieson for turning me onto it in your "Hard Bop..." book.There is not one filler on this CD. The overall work is brilliant: Hubbard is supurb; young McCoy Tyner shows why he would rise to the hights he has, Tina Brooks is as great here, if not better, than he is on the excellent Blue Note sessions he led; and Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis are a perfect fit. Listen to "One Mint Julep," you'll want another right away.
Eclipses "Hub-Tones" as his best work March 18, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Hubbard's first session as a leader is one of my favorites from the 60's Blue Note era. This recording along with a few from Hank Mobley really define what the Blue Note hard bop sound was all about. Thankfully it's been re-released as part of the Rudy Van Gelder series (which BTW is one of the greatest things to happen to jazz in the last few years). The enthusiasm Hubbard shows was characteristic of a lot of the young blowers at that time, but his maturity was something you didn't see in artists his age. Definitely an indication that a new talent with unlimited potential had landed. This is a great starting point if you're just starting to listen to Freddie Hubbard. Add to that the fact that the criminally under-recorded Tina Brooks is present on sax makes this a must have cd. Once you get this you'll also want "Hub-Tones" and "Goin'Up" and then get Mobley's "Roll Call", whose first horn you hear on that recording is, you guessed it, Freddie Hubbard's.
"Open Sesame" Says Me! February 22, 2003
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Freddie Hubbard's first album as a leader, "Open Sesame," was originally released in the States on CD in the late 80s only to be deleted quickly thereafter by numbers crunchers at Capitol. This was truly a shame because this album is one of Hubbard's great recordings, and one of the classic titles in all jazz from the early 60s. Thank goodness wiser heads prevailed and "Open Sesame" has been rissued in the RVG series. Freddie shows remarkable musical maturity and sophistication for someone who was only 22 at the time of this June 1960 session. The quintet for this date is the unheralded Tina Brooks on tenor sax, McCoy Tyner on piano, Sam Jones on bass, Clifford Jarvis on drums, and of course Hub on trumpet. Recorded just 6 days before Tina Brooks' masterpiece "True Blue," "Open Sesame" features a similar style and flavor to that great recording. And that's not surprising, considering the personnel for both albums was similar (the only changes were Duke Jordan on piano instead of Tyner and Art Taylor on drums instead of Jarvis), and Brooks contributed most of the original compositions for both sessions. On "Open Sesame," Brooks has authored the disc's first three tunes, the title track, "But Beautiful" and "Gypsy Blue," while Freddie only contributes one, the concluding "Hub's Nub." The album also features two standards, the lovely ballad "All Or Nothing At All" and the R&B tinged "One Mint Julep." "Open Sesame" was a lead-off home run for a trumpeter who has had a four decade long career filled with hall of fame moments.
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