Freddie Hubbard with Cedar Walton Trio / God Bless The Child (1992)

Freddie Hubbard : flh
Cedar Walton : p
David Williams : b
Billy Higgins : ds
Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival with Blue Note

[@satchmodejaco]

Freedie blow that solo/head for almost 5 minutes and never removed the mouthpiece from his chops until he stopped his solo. That's insane, truly one with the horn!!

[@Jazzdog40]

I saw Freddie in NY ca. 1997, after his stroke. It was sad, but he was a fighter. It was also inspiring. He promised to come back, and play better. What a genius he was.

[@jofinsky8400]

Cedar's playing is just sublime!

[@kingpleasure]

How could someone not like this? Freddie? Cedar? Who more would they want?

[@bradfordkeeney5207]

There will always be ignorant shits.

[@paullowejr.6386]

One of the greatest!

[@washingtonfootballfanwgil8392]

What I like about Freddie Hubbard? This is not his best rendition of this standard! The combination of Cedar Walton and Freddie Hubbard was like Kareem Abdul Jabber and Magic Johnson; even on a bad day, they were still the best on the floor! R.I.P. Freddie, you were my favorite.

[@user-cz7gx5mi7i]

Фрэдди,молодец! Так владеть флюгельгорном,дано не каждому-скажу я вам!! Композиции его, звучат завораживающе. Хочется слушать и слушать!!! ПУСТЬ БУДЕТ ТАК!!!

[@rodparisst]

I´ve fallen off my chair! I hadn't listened to Freddie Hubbard for years. He has grown considerably. Now he's truly big leagues. Wonderful!

[@SuperMolfie]

this is nice music!! beautifull!!

[@Jerryba2468]

Freddie seems to be enjoying all the new elbow-room

[@TheMLMGold]

I discovered Freddie recently on Jazz FM, I was smitten on first listen. That haunting, melancholic sound blows me away each time. I prefer him to Miles Davis, Freddie's more piercing and raw, and far less known.

[@crazybanannie]

Amazing

[@leaveittoprez]

RIP Cedar!

[@TheFanusik]

Joshua Redman is listening from wings 1:12

[@PatentRob]

Excellent!

[@theHellzaPoppinjazz4u]

Merci.

[@NikolaiSizov]

The Best...

[@777morgan3]

not being a brass player over time all that hard playing takes a toll on chops u hear the power and passion in which hes playing with not to mention the technique harmony not just him but a lot of players a hazzard of being verry verry good cedar is like wow david williams is wow freddie needs no last name mr hub tones mission to the stars

[@krzymarc]

Dallas' very own on (p)

[@MrArlew1]

Lawd I thought I was the only one that felt that way LOL

[@hivicar]

Brecker brothers in the wings at 4:12.

[@johnbrandt32]

swing!

[@UkuleleAversion]

7:00 Wayne Shorter's "Witch Hunt"

[@vova47]

@ Jim Jennings. Freddie, Cedar and Billy may be angels playing to angels, as you say, but bassist David Williams is still a sinner and is still on Earth last time I checked and playing his heart out to other mortals.

[@mauroviale7477]

Iooojińio

[@MyFlare123]

hey snuffrush... how about brownie's tone??

[@CrandMackerel]

I believe this is after Freddie had blown out his top lip. Notice the way he's favoring the bottom part of his embouchure. The ideas are there, just not always the execution. The mounds of coke he was doing surely didn't help. It hurts to hear him struggle, but still, even at reduced capacity, he's great.

[@markshorter76]

No, actually. He developed problems increasingly towards the end of 1992, playing lots of gigs without rest. His style of playing put, as he himself acknowledged, a lot of pressure to the muscles around the lips. At the turn of 1992/93, after playing a week at the Blue Note he developed a blister to his lip. But rather than taking a rest - as for example Wynton Marsalis begged him to do - and allowing it to heal, he flew straight to Finland for a gig with a local big band. I was at that gig as a young jazz fan. I was eagerly waiting to hear him play with his usual powerful style. But right from the beginning something was amiss. Hubbard did play his famous tunes, but an octave lower with less volume, so it sounded strangely restrained, though he played musically of course. One could see he was frustrated and the set didn't last long. There was a break and the conductor came out to tell us that Mr. Hubbard cannot play more that evening, sayin that he has a lip problem and that "it is not a pretty sight". Hubbard had actually popped the blister during the set. Later it got infected, which had a major negative effect on his playing. Everything was much more low-key for him after that. His talents and musicality had gone nowhere, but he was no longer able to bring his ideas forward with the same dexterity, strength and fluency as before. Still, he was one of the greats.

[@michaelhorn6092]

I think out of all the comments this one was the most honest and I believe your correct about the top lip although it was another source of information that I received regarding that and that was that his embouchure or front of his top lip was removed by doctors surgically removing the callus from his lip thinking it was a growth of some kind by accident not knowing what it was he was never the same, inherently he woke up from that surgery and was pissed to say the least, I loved Freddie but this performance was terrible and the look on Billy Higgins's face says it all, and the coke and not practicing didn't help either

[@wildnites558]

Fluglehorn or Mellophone??

[@brotherb8933]

Flugelhorn. Mellophone has a wider flared out bell.

[@MrArlew1]

Flugle

[@roddyrod6011]

Wow. I almost forgot just how nasty Freddie was.

[@newwayofthinking...2301]

That don't look like Cedar Walton on the piano.

[@marthaella]

Who does it look like? If you knew anything about Jazz you would know only Cedar could have that sound-especially with his dear friend, Freddy Hubbard!

[@vova47]

@@marthaella You told him. Martha!