Shannon Dickey Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 (sniff-Snort) R.I.P. Hubbard. I'll never forget waiting outside a club, in NYC, for EVER, 'cuz Hub was on one of his usual cola binges. When we finally get in and wait donkey's years for the show to begin.....Hub, after 1 tune, pulls a temper tantrum and LEAVES the show!! He made somee great music. I'll always dig the cat Quote
trane_fanatic Posted January 5, 2009 Report Posted January 5, 2009 (sniff-Snort) R.I.P. Hubbard. I'll never forget waiting outside a club, in NYC, for EVER, 'cuz Hub was on one of his usual cola binges. When we finally get in and wait donkey's years for the show to begin.....Hub, after 1 tune, pulls a temper tantrum and LEAVES the show!! He made somee great music. I'll always dig the cat Quote
trane_fanatic Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 Scans of the funeral program... http://i42.tinypic.com/34f0cvs.jpg http://i40.tinypic.com/2it2d1v.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/al0zt1.jpg Quote
Free For All Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 Nice program- thanks for sharing it, TF. Looks like it was a great service, lots of great music. Also love that album cover montage! Quote
trane_fanatic Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 (edited) A few photos I found doing a simple Google search... Glad a lotta big names came out to pay their respects to Hub. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/...EMPLATE=DEFAULT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/photos/...EMPLATE=DEFAULT http://gallery.pictopia.com/yahoo/photo/pt...102_2009-01-06/ http://gallery.pictopia.com/yahoo/photo/pt...101_2009-01-06/ http://newshopper.sulekha.com/photos/slide...rs/4/616242.htm Edited January 8, 2009 by trane_fanatic Quote
trane_fanatic Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 Nice program- thanks for sharing it, TF. Looks like it was a great service, lots of great music. Also love that album cover montage! Credit goes to another board. I'm just sharing it, but you're welcome. Quote
Enterprise Server Posted January 9, 2009 Report Posted January 9, 2009 Loved his playing. I saw him last year (2008) in San Diego. He was in very bad shape. Couldn't play three notes. He was in great spirits but physically the man was beat down. It was sad. He will be missed....that's for damn sure. Quote
Shrdlu Posted February 14, 2009 Report Posted February 14, 2009 What a terrible loss. My first Hubbard album was a mono LP of "Ready For Freddie", complete with the nose and toes in the dead wax (actually we never looked for that back then). The LP sound was fantastic - just about jumped off the disk. It's still my favorite by him, but he made so many awesome albums. Quote
Shrdlu Posted February 15, 2009 Report Posted February 15, 2009 Just read the excerpts (in a post above) from an interview with Freddie. It's interesting to hear that "Ready For Freddie" was a favorite session of his, cos I've always felt that it was just about his best. He says "Louis Armstrong: He had that funny sound. I didn't dig it when I first heard it, that Dixieland. But if you listen to him for a while he had that feeling. He didn't have that execution like Dizzy Gillespie." Funny sound? Didn't have the execution? What utter bullshit. Amazing, coming from a top trumpeter. Quote
ValerieB Posted February 16, 2009 Report Posted February 16, 2009 He says "Louis Armstrong: He had that funny sound. I didn't dig it when I first heard it, that Dixieland. But if you listen to him for a while he had that feeling. He didn't have that execution like Dizzy Gillespie." Funny sound? Didn't have the execution? What utter bullshit. Amazing, coming from a top trumpeter. perhaps to you! Quote
Shrdlu Posted February 16, 2009 Report Posted February 16, 2009 Louis had it all: sound, chops, innovation ..... Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted February 17, 2009 Report Posted February 17, 2009 "RIDE LIKE THE WIND" (electra-musican) 1982 WORK OF GENIUS JEFF POCAROS DAD JOE ON PERCUSSION, ABE LABOREL, BILL MAYS PAT METHENYS KEYBOARD PLAYER, , OH BUY THE BEST PART, THE BEST PART: WHOS IS THE HORN SECTION ON THIS LP?? ***BUD SHANK & BILL PERKINS**!!!! Quote
Free For All Posted February 17, 2009 Report Posted February 17, 2009 BILL MAYS PAT METHENYS KEYBOARD PLAYER Lyle Mays was with Metheny. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted February 17, 2009 Report Posted February 17, 2009 oh duh, lol -- yea i know bill mays, back when he was in the service in the 60s he was the piano player at the Kona Kai beach club in S.D Quote
oneofanotherkind Posted February 18, 2009 Report Posted February 18, 2009 Very sad the way Friday went out. What I didn't understand however was why Hub chose to persist with trumpet once his chops were clearly irreparably damaged to the point meaningful playing became impossible ? Freddie was a very talented composer/arranger/orchestrator and played a little piano. He could have put the horn down and with some work might have resumed contributing to jazz at the highest levels in one or both of those areas. I know , I know , easier said than done , but remember that the chops problems started what , about 15+ years ago ? Those concerts where he couldn't play a lick just didn't seem right to me. People kept on hoping he'd magically recover ( and I'm sure some attended not even realizing how bad it was ) , and that set the stage for endless disappointments. Quote
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