Splash (Freddie Hubbard album)
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Splash is a studio album
Studio album
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 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...

 released in 1981 on the Fantasy
Fantasy Records
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 label which features performances by Hubbard with several R&B session musicians. The Allmusic biography by Scott Yanow
Scott Yanow
Scott Yanow is an American jazz commentator, known for many contributions to the Allmusic website, for writing ten books on jazz and for reviewing jazz recordings for over 30 years.-Biography:...

 identifies the album as one of Hubbards "low points".

Track listing

  1. "Splash" (David "Cat" Cohen, Thurlene Johnson) - 5:02
  2. "Mystic Lady" - 4:53
  3. "I'm Yours" (Clarence McDonald, Hall) - 4:51
  4. "Touchdown" (Cohen, Don Tracy) - 5:08
  5. "You're Gonna Lose Me" (Cynthia Faulkner, Jackie Morissette, Hall) - 5:20
  6. "Sister Stine" - 5:24
  7. "Jarri" - 6:34
All compositions by Al Hall Jr. & Freddie Hubbard except as indicated

Personnel

  • 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...

    : trumpet
    Trumpet
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    , flugelhorn
    Flugelhorn
    The flugelhorn is a brass instrument resembling a trumpet but with a wider, conical bore. Some consider it to be a member of the saxhorn family developed by Adolphe Sax ; however, other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle , Munich 1832 , thus...

  • David T. Walker
    David T. Walker
    David T. Walker is an American guitarist born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In addition to numerous session musician duties since the early 1970s, Walker has issued over twelve albums in his own name.-Career:...

    : guitar
    Electric guitar
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  • Paul Jackson Jr.: guitar
  • Louis Small: keyboards
  • Clarence McDonald
    Clarence McDonald
    Clarence "Mac" McDonald is a Los Angeles based pianist, composer, arranger, and producer. He is a co-writer/co-publisher of the #1 Billboard and Grammy nominated song "Everything To Me" performed by Monica. Most recently McDonald performed on the all-star benefit album entitled Jazz For Japan...

    : keyboards
  • Chester Thompson
    Chester Thompson
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    : keyboards
  • Ron Brown: bass
    Electric Bass
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  • David Sheilds: bass
  • Jim Keltner
    Jim Keltner
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    : drums
    Drum kit
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  • James Gadson
    James Gadson
    James Gadson is an American drummer and session musician. Beginning his career in the late 1960s, Gadson has since become one of the most-recorded drummers in the history of R&B music....

    : drums
  • Al Hall Jr.: synthesizer
    Synthesizer
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    , trombone
    Trombone
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    , percussion
  • William "Buck" Clarke percussion
  • Tony Flores: percussion
  • Maurice "Mo" Young: backing vocals
  • Jeanie Tracy
    Jeanie Tracy
    Jeanie Tracy is a female African American R&B, Dance-pop, Hi-NRG and house singer-songwriter and actress, born in Houston, Texas and raised in Fresno, California.-Career:Growing up Tracy sang in a church choir in addition to studying opera and piano...

    : vocals
    Vocal music
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    , backing vocals
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