Artist: Freddie Hubbard
Album: Life Flight
Genre: Jazz
Release Date: 1987/2014
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 41:47
Total Tracks: 4
Total Size: 1,65 GB

Tracklist:

01. Freddie Hubbard – Battlescar Galorica (08:10)
02. Freddie Hubbard – A Saint’s Homecoming Song (11:17)
03. Freddie Hubbard – The Melting Pot (09:11)
04. Freddie Hubbard – Life Flight (13:07)

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Life Flight is a later album by Freddie Hubbard and was recorded in 1987, when the trumpeter was 48 years old. Still in peak form, the album is an excellent example of Hubbard’s musicianship and mastery of his instrument.This release captures the great trumpeter Freddie Hubbard at the age of 48 just before he began to decline. Hubbard is heard in excellent shape on two selections apiece with two separate bands. One group, a sextet with tenor-saxophonist Stanley Turrentine and guitarist George Benson, recalls the trumpeter’s glory days on CTI although the material (“Battlescar Galorica” and “A Saint’s Homecoming Song”) was of recent vintage. The other band, a quintet with tenor-saxophonist Ralph Moore, looks back toward his earlier Blue Note and Atlantic days; they perform two Hubbard originals (“The Melting Pot” and “Life Flight”). Overall this set (from an era when the veteran trumpeter was being overshadowed by Wynton Marsalis) gives listeners one of the last opportunities to hear Freddie Hubbard in peak form.