🎷 AotW: CTI Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life (CTI Records CTI 6007 / CTI 8022)

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1673465405951.pngFreddie Hubbard: Straight Life

CTI Records CTI 6007
Released 1970
(pictured top right)

Reissued as CTI 8022 in 1982
(pictured middle right)

  • Straight Life 17:30
  • Mr. Clean 13:30
  • Here's That Rainy Day 5:10
Bass – Ron Carter
Design [Album] – Bob Ciano
Drums – Jack DeJohnette
Engineer – Rudy Van Gelder
Guitar – George Benson
Mastered By – Van Gelder
Percussion – Richard "Pablo" Landrum
Photography By [Cover Photographs] – Pete Turner
Photography By [Liner Photographs] – Chuck Stewart
Piano – Herbie Hancock
Producer – Creed Taylor
Tambourine – Weldon Irvine
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax] – Joe Henderson
Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard

1673465523447.pngRecorded at Van Gelder Studios, November 16, 1970


Amazon product ASIN B075RHT6WT




 
Admittedly not my favorite of his CTI albums (I don't play it as often as others), but is sometimes regarded as his best recording. Typical "all-star" line-up on this album as well, with all the usual CTI suspects (plus Jack DeJohnette and Joe Henderson) sitting in.

The 80s album cover (pictured in the middle of the page) is an insult to Turner's photography, IMHO. Columbia really dumbed down their 80s covers on the reissues (as you'll see later in the series).
 
Solid LP. Definitely 1970. That cavernous reverb was nice on the Freddie's wandering take on Rainy Day.
 
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