Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Freddie Hubbard, R. I. P.

Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70 - Yahoo! News: "LOS ANGELES – Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70."

2 comments:

Todd Mason said...

It's remarkable to think how the Young Lions of the 1960s are now not too remarkably the victims of age-appropriate heart ailments. Or at least I have remarked it. Certainly his fusion work was no duller than most of Miles Davis's (particularly the later Davis bands').

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