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By JAMES GIBBONS and RITA CRAWFORDJazz is perhaps the only institution of Jack Kerouac's beat generation (including drugs, directionless travel, relevant lyrics and blue jeans) that failed to carry over to today’s hippie movement.But Freddie Hubbard’s quintet, playing through the weekend at La Bastille, makes it hard to understand why.Hubbard’s incredibly resonant, sonorous trumpet and flugalhorn improvisations form a nucleus for the perfect musical head trip. Although he has played with such giants as John Coltrane, Sonny Hollins and Herbie Hancock, his music reflects not so much the influence of any one master as thecombined virtuosity only years of performance can produce.Hubbard’s band, including Junior Cook on tenor sax andflute, Ken Brinkley on bass violin and bass guitar, Virgil Day on drums and George Cables onelectric piano, was the hit of the New York Jazz Festival. Their album, First Light, was listed as Billboard's Top Jazz Album of 1972. Freddie Hubbard and his group were also nominated for three Grammy awards.Hubbard’s musical appeal is not limited to just jazz buffs. In a single hour, he traces the history of jazz, displays the contemporary influence of rock, and gives the listener a pretty good idea of where jazz is going.Backstage, after an early set, he talked about the problem that plagues all jazz musicians—trying to play music people will listen to.“Not enough people follow jazz,” he lamented, “I play anything, rock or classical music, I just want to make a living.”He said he wanted to play something a little heavier, but he didn’t know if Houston was ready tor it.Is Houston ready for the music of Freddie Hubbard? Check him out at La Bastille and decide for yourself.
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Houston Daily Cougar
Houston, Texas, US
Fri, Feb 09, 1973
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