Jazz / Post-Bop
Recorded: Dec 14, 1981, Ocean Way Recording Studio, Hollywood, California
Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard teams up with veteran tenor-saxophonist Harold Land and Hubbard's regular rhythm section of the period (keyboardist Billy Childs, bassist Larry Klein, drummer Steve Houghton and percussionist Buck Clark) on this fine modern hard bop CD, a straight reissue of the original Pablo LP. Hubbard had hurt his reputation with his very commercial Columbia recordings of the mid-to-late '70s so in 1981 he was doing his best to return to his brand of straightahead jazz. This date is highlighted by "Gibraltar," Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring" and a revisit to Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring."
---Scott Yanow, allmusic
Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
Harold Land - tenor saxophone
Billy Childs - keyboards
Larry Klein - bass
Steve Houghton - drums
Buck Clark - percussion |
