Free for All

Reggie WorkmanReggie Workmanレジー・ワークマン was one of John ColtraneJohn Coltraneジョン・コルトレーン's bassists in the early 1961 sessions before Jimmy GarrisonJimmy Garrisonジミー・ギャリソン became the permanent member. He continued recording with Wayne ShorterWayne Shorterウェイン・ショーター and Art BlakeyArt Blakeyアート・ブレイキー, remaining at the forefront of the avant-garde. On Hub-TonesHub-TonesFreddie Hubbard · 1962 he appeared alongside a young Herbie HancockHerbie Hancockハービー・ハンコック.

On Free for AllFree for AllArt Blakey · 1964 (February 1964), Art BlakeyArt Blakeyアート・ブレイキー's ferocious drumming pushed the band to the edge of free jazz, and Freddie HubbardFreddie Hubbardフレディ・ハバード met the pressure head-on. A studio session that crackles with the energy of a live performance — one of hard bop's most violent moments.

Freddie Hubbard's 1970 CTI track 'Red Clay' was written to order after a producer told him to 'write a hit.' Hubbard recalled that his fellow jazz musicians sneered at him for writing something so corny — yet the commissioned tune became the record he's best remembered for.

Freddie Hubbard, the lyrical hard-bop trumpeter of Hub-Tones, also turns up on Ascension, the 1965 wall-of-sound free-jazz session. The tidy melodist standing inside the most extreme date of the era is the surprise.

Moanin' (1958) first appeared under the plain eponymous title 'Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.' The opening tune, written by pianist Bobby Timmons, caught on so widely that the whole record came to be known by its name — the sideman's song, not the leader's, gave the album its title.

In 1961, pianist Cedar Walton brought his new composition "Mosaic" to a rehearsal with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. He later said the horn players—Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, and Wayne Shorter—devoured the tune "like eating cornflakes," playing it better than he could himself.

In the 1960s, Freddie Hubbard was constantly measured against fellow trumpeter Lee Morgan every time he took the stand. He later said that pressure, rather than wearing him down, was exactly what kept him pushing forward.

The 1961 album Mosaic is filed under Art Blakey's name, but the title tune was written by the pianist, Cedar Walton. The record everyone remembers as the bandleader's takes its name from the small print.