🎷 AotW: CTI Freddie Hubbard: First Light (CTI Records CTI 6013 / CTI 8017)

Freddie Hubbard: First Light

CTI Records CTI 6013
Released 1971
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Reissued as CTI 8017 in 1982
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• A1: First Light /11:00
• A2: Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey /8:12
• B1: Moment To Moment /5:40
• B2: Yesterday's Dreams /3:55
• B3: Lonely Town /6:55

Arranged By – Don Sebesky
Bass – Ron Carter
Bassoon – Jane Taylor
Cello – Charles McCracken, George Ricci
Design [Album] – Bob Ciano
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Engineer, Mastered By – Rudy Van Gelder
Flute – Hubert Laws
Flute, Bassoon – Wally Kane
Flute, Clarinet – George Marge
Flute, Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet – Romeo Penque
French Horn – James Buffington, Ray Alonge
Guitar – George Benson
Harp – Margaret Ross
Percussion – Airto Moreira
Photography By [Cover] – Pete Turner
Photography By [Liner] – Dean Brown
Piano – Richard Wyands
Producer – Creed Taylor
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard
Vibraphone – Phil Kraus
Viola – Alfred Brown, Emanuel Vardi
Violin – David Nadien, Emanuel Green, Gene Orloff, Harold Kohon, Irving Spice, Joe Malin, Matthew Raimondi, Paul Gershman, Tosha Samaroff

Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, September 1971


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[Rudy]

Purists probably scoffed at this one, but I like it quite a bit, more so than his other fine CTI albums. This album finds Freddie Hubbard finally joining the 1970s and updating his sound beyond the hard bop he was known for elsewhere--this one fits more into the Creed Taylor mold, yet still hangs onto Hubbard's originality. The sound on recent remasterings (vinyl and high-res) clears up a little of the Van Gelder "mud" that plagued earlier versions. Three of the songs on the record are covers, including the then-recent "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey" by the McCartneys. One of my favorites albums in the CTI catalog!