Freddie Hubbard - Keep Your Soul Together - Polar AC - Skagly

[Leroy Bad]

In case you missed it last week BGO has put out a sweet compilation of Hubbard's late 70s works.

Keep Your Soul Together, his last work on CTI in my opinion is just as good as his first Red Clay.

All 3 releases are remastered and sound better than before, especially Polar AC.which never sounded good on the previous issues I owned,

http://amzn.com/B00IKXVMXI

[jazzbo]

is wasn't.

Man, that must have been tense.

Edited May 21, 2014 by jazzbo

[Eric]

Skagly has been discussed elsewhere, but this set has really grown on me over the years. I enjoy it more than Super Blue, the so-called "jazziest" of his Columbia dates.

Sweet compilation.

[mjzee]

Thanks for the heads up.

I wonder if Sony will ever release a box set combining the CTI and Columbia material.

[mjzee]

And Universal could put out a box set combining his Blue Note and Impulse (and Pablo?) sides.

[crisp]

That's funny. I was thinking about Hubbard's Columbia/CTI dates only yesterday. Glad the sound is good, although a box set would have been better.

[mjzee]

I think that then leaves his Atlantic titles...which would make a good boxed set!

[CJ Shearn]

If a set combining his BN/Impulse/Pablo sides ever materialized from Universal, if they included the "comeback" BN's too, "Times Are Changing" is one of the WORST Freddie albums I've heard. Even cheesier than some of the Columbia stuff. The Youtube comments regarding that one are hilarious, one person ranks "Times are Changing" on the same level as "First Light"! Different tastes are so interesting sometimes, I feel sorry that "Times Are Changing" are some people's only exposure to Hubbard, it shows not much of what made him great at all.