From: Winston Balfourth (Winston.Balfourth_at_cw.com)
Date: 2004-02-26 10:05:37
Has to be one of my favourites if not my favourite Freddie Hubbard album.
The original Little Sunflower and the excellent Backlash and Return of the
Prodigal son stand out for me but it is a very good soul-jazz album as
already mentioned and if you don't have it I would definitely recommend. On
top of that there is a good group of musicians on the album that add to the
variety on it.
W
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From: Heikki J Wilenius [mailto:heikki.wilenius_at_iki.fi]
Sent: 25 February 2004 23:23
To: acid-jazz_at_ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: [acid-jazz] Freddie Hubbard
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Carl Barimore wrote:
> I've been told 'Backlash' is a good album. What does everyone think of it?
> Opinions please.
I like the album because of its variety. First two songs are straight
out soul jazz, not anything extraordinary IMHO. Last song of the
a-side, "Little Sunflower" is excellent, with Ray Barretto on
percussion. B-side is filled with great soloing on top of
weird time signatures and some nice free jazz moments. There's
no basic dancefloor stuff there (well, maybe for a progressive
audience =) ), but it's a solid jazz album.
-heikki