Текст песни Freddie Hubbard 1970 Red Clay - 01 Red Clay

Track List:

1. Red Clay (Hubbard) 12:11
2. Delphia (Hubbard) 7:23
3. Suite Sioux (Hubbard) 8:38
4. The Intrepid Fox (Hubbard) 10:45
5. Cold Turkey (Lennon) 10:27
6. Red Clay [#/*] (Hubbard) 18:45

Personnel:

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet);
Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine (alto saxophone);
Herbie Hancock (piano);
Johnny Hammond (electric piano, organ);
George Benson (guitar);
Ron Carter (bass);
Lenny White, Billy Cobham (drums);
Airto Moreira (percussion).

AMG:
This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader in that it embodies and utilizes all of
his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On Red Clay, Hubbard combines hard bop's
glorious blues-out past with the soulful innovations of mainstream jazz in the 1960s, and reads
them through the chunky groove innovations of 1970s jazz fusion. This session places the trumpeter
in the company of giants such as tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist
Ron Carter, and drummer Lenny White.

Hubbard's five compositions all come from deep inside blues territory; these shaded notions are
grafted onto funky hard bop melodies worthy of Horace Silver's finest tunes, and are layered
inside the smoothed-over cadences of shimmering, steaming soul. The 12-minute-plus title track
features a 4/4 modal opening and a spare electric piano solo woven through the twin horns of
Hubbard and Henderson. It is a fine example of snaky groove music. Henderson even takes his solo
outside a bit without ever moving out of the rhythmnatist's pocket. "Delightful" begins as a
ballad with slow, clipped trumpet lines against a major key background, and opens onto a mid-tempo
groover, then winds back into the dark, steamy heart of bluesy melodicism. The hands-down favorite
here, though, is "The Intrepid Fox," with its Miles-like opening of knotty changes and shifting
modes, that are all rooted in bop's muscular architecture. It's White and Hancock who shift the
track from underneath with large sevenths and triple-timed drums that land deeply inside the
clamoring, ever-present riff. Where Hubbard and Henderson are playing against as well as with one
another, the rhythm section, lifted buoyantly by Carter's bridge-building bassline, carries the
melody over until Hancock plays an uncharacteristically angular solo before splitting the groove
in two and doubling back with a series of striking arpeggiatics. The Legacy reissue, boasting not
only gloriously remastered sound, offers an even longer — and more revealing — live take of "Red
Clay" with a different band that includes Stanley Turrentine on tenor. This is a classic, hands down.