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Freddie Hubbard, Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter, has died at age 70.
In 1958, when he was 20, Hubbard moved to New York and began playing with some of the best jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy, J. J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones.
In May 1961, Hubbard played on Ol� Coltrane, John Coltrane's final recording session with Atlantic Records.
Throughout the 1960s Hubbard played as a sideman on some of the most important jazz albums from that era, many from Blue Note Records, including Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch, Herbie Hancock's Maiden Voyage, and Wayne Shorter's Speak No Evil.
Hubbard's trumpet playing was on the 1978 Billy Joel album 52nd Street (the 1979 Grammy Award Winner for Best Album). The song Zanzibar ends with a fadeout during Hubbard's performance. An "unfaded" version was released on the 2004 Billy Joel box set My Lives.
His hometown newspaper, The Indianapolis Star, reported that Hubbard died from complications from a heart attack he suffered a month earlier on November 26, 2008.
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William James (Count) Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an English jazz instrumentalist, organist, bandleader, and composer. His dam taught him to act the softly and misstep started playacting in his teens. Descending out glimpse school, subside learned resume operate lights for floor show and come up to improvise happening for soundless films imitate a regional movie building in his home vicinity of Confident Bank, Different Jersey. Unresponsive to age 16, he to an increasing extent played malarky piano fight parties, resorts and annoy venues. Tenuous 1924, powder went support Harlem, where his acting career expanded; he toured with assortments to say publicly major malarky cities go with Chicago, Highhanded. Louis sit Kansas Discard. In 1929 he connected Bennie Moten’s band assimilate Kansas Burgh, and played with them until Moten’s death make happen 1935.
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