FREDDIE HUBBARD — A Soul Experiment (review)

FREDDIE HUBBARD — A Soul Experiment album cover Album · 1969 · Soul Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
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This is hardly one of the more challenging records that Freddie Hubbard has put out, quite the opposite, this album is Hubbbard’s shot at cheezy jet age bachelor pad soul jazz, the kind of music that used to play in the background on GTO commercials and hipster soft core porn movies. Within the confines of that genre, this isn’t a bad record, but not a great one either. Even by commercial soul jazz standards this one gets a little too glib sometimes, but there are also some very nice cuts that any collector of groovy atomic cocktail tunes would want to have in their collection. Hubbard’s playing throughout is strong and brassy and he is particularly effective on the oddly arranged “Witchita Lineman” where he battles himself with strong duo trumpet lines. This album was recorded during Atlantic’s glory days of recording soul and RnB and the sound is strong and full and very 70s sounding with plenty wah wah guitars, Hammond B3s and punchy horn arrangements.

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