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.
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.
So the Freddie Hubbard show I was supposed to see at the Scat Jazz Lounge tonight has been “postponed due to illness.” This is disappointing, but probably not as disappointing as seeing sick Freddie Hubbard play.
Oso Closo, a band filled mostly with friends of mine, is scheduled to be the rock band for several productions of the Who’s Tommy this September.
Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of the first Pat Metheny Group album. In response to this, I just purchased the album Fictionary, by Lyle Mays, Marc Johnson and Jack DeJohnette.
Also, I’m still listening to tons of Steely Dan, in anticipation of their Grand Prairie show next month.