Freddie Hubbard News

Last week, Kyle Long discussed five albums that featured Indianapolis-born trumpeter Freddie Hubbard as a bandleader.

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Earlier this year, Steve Wiest was appointed director of the University of North Texas' celebrated, world-traveling jazz group, the One O'Clock Lab Band.

The Indy Jazz Fest has drawn back the curtain slightly to reveal the names of two of the acts scheduled to perform during the 11th annual music festival.

Here's what I'm planning to play on the Jazz Connection tonight - Monday 15 June - on Radio Cardiff 98.7: Freddie Hubbard a ' A Night in Tunisia Ray Camacho & the Teardrops a ' Si Si Puede Troyka a ' Call Wyn Lodwick and Friends a ' Just a Closer Walk With Thee Tune in at 8pm on 98.7 FM or watch and listen live online at www.radiocardiff.org

SOLVANG SALUTES FREDDIE HUBBARD: Although the Solvang Jazz Festival is but a toddler at this stage, with only two fests behind it so far, with this September's third annual affair, the festival will be celebrating a sense of circular history - going back to the head, so to speak.

Named " best jazz pianist of his generation " in Time Magazine, Cyrus Chestnut is known for his imaginative, inventive style and his profound sense of the history and language of Jazz.

One secret ingredient in the elephantine new Sunn O))) record, Monoliths & Dimensions , is Julian Priester .

VARIOUS ARTISTS / "Little Sunflower" Source: Breath of Life 06 Little Sunflower Mixtape.mp3 On December 29, 2009 trumpeter Freddie Hubbard made his transition.

Wolf & Rissmiller's Country Club, April 7, 1982. Walking forward to the front of the stage, producer and drummer Lenny White held a microphone to his lips to announce the members of the band.

New York, NY 212-581-3080 Guitarist and Connecticut native Joe Diorio earned his reputation as a creative jazz soloist in bands led by jazz legends Sonny Stitt, Horace Silver, Stan Getz and Freddie Hubbard.

Charles Owens and the Luckman Jazz Orchestra finish up their season this Saturday by playing a whole mess of Freddie Hubbard compositions.

After 17 years as a featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra it was time to make his own statement.

Scotty Barnhart has released his first solo offering Say It Plain . After 17 years as a featured soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra it was time to make his own statement.

Track Circadian Rhythms Artist/Band Thomas Marriott Duration 4:01 Album Flexicon Record Label Origin Records Description From Freddie Hubbard's burner "Take it to the Ozone," to the moody and spare reading of Elvis Costello's "Almost Blue," Flexicon's unified yet eclectic mix further solidifies Marriott's standing as one of the finer voices in jazz ...

The Andy Polay Duo Live @ BeanRunner Cafe Friday, May 15th @ 7:00 p.m. Peekskill, NY: The Andy Polay Duo featuring Rahn Burton will be playing the Beanrunner Cafe in Peekskill, NY, on Friday, May 15th, at 7PM.

SOURCE: Seattle Jazz Scene Trumpeter Thomas Marriott hits the road this weekend performing for two nights at The Cellar in Vancouver, BC, before returning home for his CD Release Party next Tuesday, May 12, at The Triple Door.

Interview: Creed Taylor SOURCE: JazzWax by Marc Myers Creed Taylor has never before granted an interview about the events leading up to the bankruptcy of CTI Records in 1978.

For his first posthumous release, famed jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard will resurface on June 2 with "Without a Song: Live In Europe 1969." Hubbard, who died last December at age 70, will join the ranks of Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane, and Horace Silver in a recent series of live releases from Blue Note.

No one would sensibly claim that Tapiola in Espoo, Finland is the location of the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, but this "little" major festival has seen many pioneering artists during its 22 years, including Freddie Hubbard, Pat Metheny, Ray Charles and more.

29. The service will be held Monday from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue, at West 112th Street, Morningside Heights.