Artist:Freddie Hubbard
Song:Blues for Duane
Album:The Hub of Hubbard
Most jazz fans are familiar with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard's 60s albums on Blue Note and his early 70s albums on CTI. But you may not be familiar with the albums he recorded for Atlantic in the late 60s. But you have probably never heard of the 1970 album The Hub of Hubbard. He recorded that for the German label MPS. Hubbard recorded for Blue Note until 1966 when Alfred Lion sold Blue Note to Liberty Records which in turn was sold United Artists. So a lot of guys left Blue Note including Hubbard. He formed a new band with James Spaulding on sax, Kenny Barron on piano and Louis Hayes on drums. Hubbard was looking for a more commercial sound at Atlantic. The funny part is Blue Note transitioned to a more commercial sound in the late 60s. Maybe he didn't like the new owners. Hubbard recorded five albums for Atlantic. That's when former A&M Records producer Creed Taylor started CTI Records and Hubbard knew that Taylor would produce the kind of sound he wanted. But before he went to CTI, he recorded the 1970 album The Hub of Hubbard for the German label MPS. MPS was started by the electronics company SABA and then sold to audio tape manufacturer BASF. Oscar Peterson recorded for them after he left MGM. At the time, Hubbard was on a European tour. And he thought this wiould be a good opportunity to record with that band. The band was Eddie Daniels on tenor sax, Roland Hanna on piano, Richard Davis on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. It was always intended as a one off album because he started with CTI immediately after the tour. But it's a good album and it's available on CD. MPS went through several ownership changes before Universal acquired them in 1999. They sold MPS to the German label Edel AG in 2014. Here's Freddie Hubbard with Donald Braden on tenor sax, Benny Green on piano, Jeff Chambers on bass ande Louis Hayes on drums performing Blues for Duane in Spain 1991.
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