On The Real Side (70th Birthday Celebration)
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On the Real Side is an album
by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard
recorded in 2007 to celebrate his 70th birthday in 2008 and released on the Times Square label in the same year as his milestone birthday and his subsequent death in the fall.
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...
recorded in 2007 to celebrate his 70th birthday in 2008 and released on the Times Square label in the same year as his milestone birthday and his subsequent death in the fall.
Track listing
- "Lifeflight" - 8:44
- "Up Jumped Spring" - 7:07
- "Theme for Kareem" - 6:35
- "On the Real Side" - 6:25
- "Take It to the Ozone" - 7:37
- "Skydive" - 9:37
- "Gibraltar" - 6:20
- All compositions by Freddie Hubbard
Personnel
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