http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/jazz-trumpeter-freddie-hubbard-dies-1003925464.story

This is sad news. I was supposed to see Freddie a few months ago in Dallas, but he cancelled due to health reasons. Freddie along with Lee Morgan really embraced the concept of strength in trumpet playing. Trumpet has the potential to be very loud and in your face. I’m sad that I never got to see him perform before he died.

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Ethan Iverson has already put up a collection of important albums and links up at his blog, Do The Math. I saw the Bad Plus last night. Siri, my sister and I were fortuitously moved from the mezzanine to a table on the floor for some unknown reason. They played a couple tunes that they played last year, such as Ornette Coleman’s “Song X.” Being on the floor was great. Though we were off to the left side a bit, it was good to be able to see Iverson’s hands, which were matter and antimatter, operating in simultaneous and seemingly disparate meters and tempos.

1. 
   Kev

   You may recall that I had tickets to one of the Freddie shows that week as well. Sorry you never got to see him; I at least got to do that at a jazz festival with the Four O’Clock when I was in school.

   (My tribute to Freddie is here. Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out his (I assume) final CD, done with the New Jazz Composers Octet, led by UNT alum (and my former KNTU coworker) David Weiss.)

2. 
   phil rose

   hey john, the bad plus in march, murder by death in late feb.

   sweet.

   Sorry I missed your last visit, I know you’re probably busy but if you ever need a place to sleep/see a show in sea-town let me know!

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