FREDDIE HUBBARD "THE BODY & THE SOUL" AP, 2LP, 45RPM, LE, NE, SO, RVG, NEW
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FREDDIE HUBBARD "THE BODY & THE SOUL"
2010 ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS "THE IMPULSE! REISSUES", 2LP, 45RPM, 180G VIRGIN VINYL, DELUXE GATEFOLD COVER, ENGINEERED BY RUDY VAN GELDER, MASTERED BY KEVIN GRAY AT ACOUSTECH AND PRESSED AT RTI USA, EDITION LIMITED TO 1,500 NUMBER COPIES, THIS IS #99, EDITION IS SOLD-OUT, CATALOG NUMBER A-38.
"FREDDIE HUBBARD'S SECOND IMPULSE! ALBUM. 'THE BODY & THE SOUL' FEATURES THE 25 YEAR OLD CONSOLIDATING A REPUTATION AS AN IMPORTANT NEW VOICE OF JAZZ AND ONE OF THE BEST TO EMERGE OF THE 60'S. PLAYING ALONG WITH A TENOR SAXOPHONE BACKED BY STRINGS, 'SKYLARK', 'I GOT IT BAD' AND 'CHOCOLATE SHAKE' ARE ALL GIVEN BEAUTIFUL TREATMENTS WITH A 16 PIECE BAND AND IN A SEPTET WITH ERIC DOLPHY AND WAYNE SHORTER."
"FREDDIE HUBBARD WAS 25 WHEN HE ENTERED THE STUDIO WITH THIS FANTASTIC BAND IN 1963. THE BOSS OF THE JAZZ MESSENGERS, ART BLAKEY (IN WHOSE QUINTET HUBBARD FOLLOWED IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SUCH BRILLIANT TRUMPETERS AS CLIFFORD BROWN AND LEE MORGAN), HAD GIVEN HIM A FEW DAYS OFF, AND BOB THIELE, PRODUCER WITH IMPULSE!, GOT HOLD OF THE VERY BEST SOLOISTS AND WIND INSTRUMENTALISTS HE COULD FIND FOR HIM TO RECORD WITH. IN PARTICULAR THEIR PERFORMANCE OF SUCH STANDARDS AS 'BODY AND SOUL', 'SKYLARK' AND 'I GOT IT BAD' REVEALS NOT ONLY A SENSITIVITY AND RESPECT FOR THE MELODY, BUT ALSO AVANTGARD PHRASING (AND STILL CONSIDERED SO EVEN TODAY!) WHICH IS LENT EMPHASIS BY THE RESTRAINED ACCOMPANIMENT OF THE STRINGS. FREDDIE HUBBARD'S COLLEAGUE WAYNE SHORTER IS NOT ONLY LEADER OF THE FORMATION BUT ALSO THE ARRANGER. PARTICULARLY PLEASING IS THAT OTHER SOLOISTS SUCH AS ERIC DOLPHY AND CEDAR WALTON ARE GIVEN AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO DISPLAY THEIR TALENTS."
"AT AGE 25, FREDDIE HUBBARD MADE INROADS INTO MODERN JAZZ MOST TRUMPETERS COULD NOT IMAGINE, MUCH LESS COME THROUGH WITH. AS A SOLOIST, ONE OF HU8BBARD'S CROWNING ACHIEVEMENTS IN HIS EARLY PERIOD WAS THIS RECORDING ON WHICH HE TEAMED WITH WAYNE SHORTER, MARGINALLY AS A PERFORMER BUT PROMINENT IN THE ROLE OF ARRANGER/CONDUCTER FOR HIS FIRST TIME EVER. UTILIZING A SEPTET, 16 PIECE BIG BAND, AND ORCHESTRA PLUS STRINGS TO PLAY CONCISE, TIGHT TUNES. SHORTER PROVIDES THE BACKDROP TO EMPLOY HUBBARD'S BOLD TONED TRUMPET AND ALL OF ITS DEVICES IN A FULL DISPLAY OF HIS POWERFUL MELODIC TALENTS. YEOMAN REGGIE WORKMAN PLAYS BASS ON ALL SELECTIONS, WITH DRUMMER LOUIS HAYES IN THE SEVEN-PIECE COMBO, AND GREAT WORK FROM PHILLY JOE JONES IN THE LARGER BANDS INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THE THREE TRACKS WITH THE SMALLER ENSEMBLE ARE THE MOST INTERESTING, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF ERIC DOLPHY, CURTIS FULLER, CEDAR WALTON, AND SHORTER ON THE FRONT LINE. 'CLARENCE'S PLACE' IS A POST-BOP JEWEL WITH SPIKY BRASS ACCENTS AND DOLPHY'S RIBALD AND OUTRE ALTO SAX SOLO CONTRASTING SHORTER'S RELATIVELY RESERVED TENOR, 'DEDICATED TO YOU' IS A WISP OF A TUNE, WHILE 'BODY & SOUL', AN ATYPICAL CHOICE FOR THE OPENING SELECTION, IS A STRAIGHT READ OF THE CLASSIC BALLAD WITH A CHART THAT SOUNDS LARGER THAN THE SMALL HORN SECTION, AND A WAVERING FLUTE VIA DOLPHY. THE BIG BAND DOES AN UNUSUAL SOUL-JAZZ TREATMENT OF THE BRAZILIAN NUMBER 'MANHA DE CARNAVAL' FLAVORED BY ROBERT NORTHERN'S FRENCH HORN, WHILE 'ARIES' IS A HARD BOP SHOW STOPPER WITH TWO-NOTE ACCENTS BUOYING HUBBARD'S GREAT LYRICAL LINES, AND GOES FURTHER INTO HARD BOP WITH 'THERMO' AS THE HORNS DEMAND ATTENTION WITH THE TRUMPETER AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. THE STRING SECTION, TEN PIECES STRONG, JOINS THE BIG BAND ON THE FILM NOIR TYPE DUKE ELLINGTON PIECE 'CHOCOLATE SHAKE', THE STOCK 'I GOT IT BAD' AND 'SKYLARK', WITH ITS SOFT CLARION INTRO BUBBLING UNDERNEATH WITH THE VIOLINS, VIOLAS, AND CELLOS. THE MANNER IN WHICH THE RECORDING IS PROGRAMMED IS THOUGHTFUL IN THAT IT LENDS TO THE DIVERSITY OF THE PROJECT, BUT IS SEAMLESS FROM TRACK TO TRACK. DAN MORGANSTERN'S HEFTY LINER NOTES ALSO EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT BEHIND THIS AMBITIOUS PROJECT, ONE WHICH DID NOT COMPARE TO ANY OF HUBBARD'S OTHER ECORDINGS IN HIS CAREER. THEREFORE IT STANDS ALONE AS ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PRODUCTIONS IN HIS SUBSTANTIAL DISCOGRAPHY, AND A QUITE CREDIBLE INITIAL GO-ROUND FOR SHORTER AS AN ORCHESTRATOR."----MICHAEL G. NASTOS, ALL MUSIC
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