Freddie Hubbard Charlie Haden,Billy Cobham Freddie Hubbard Charlie Haden Billy Cobham/Switzerland 1983

This is jazz, a modern update of the Miles Davis Original Quintet and Clifford Brown & Max Roach Double Quintet, which were a fierce fireworks in New York in the mid-1950s! Freddie, in his prime, led a unique all-star band and delivered a powerful blow that left you shaking at the knees! On July 23, 1983, Montreux shook in its prime! At the Montreux Jazz Festival, tenor/flute Lou Tabackin, piano Joan Brackeen, bass Charlie Haden, and drums Billy Cobham, as you would expect from Montreux, performed a super hard live performance that was almost completely recorded over 80 minutes on the highest quality stereo sound board with careful mastering by the label! The first song of the Freddie Quintet's performance made me feel like I was back in the 50's. It was a quintet formed by Clifford Brown, the greatest trumpeter of the hard bop era, nicknamed Brownie, and Max Roach, Miles' original quintet with Coltrane, Art Blakey, the son of hard bop in his heyday, and the Jazz Messengers, who had returned, or rather, had returned even more powerful than before...?! Freddie, who has been described as a hurricane for his perfect technique and tone, and who surpasses Clifford, the most skilled jazz trumpeter, and who brings out the characteristics of the trumpet to the fullest, blasts out superb phrases full of song with his superb technique and tone, and blows away the audience with his fierce performance from the very beginning, "Rhythm-a-ning". After that, they performed "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," "Body and Soul," "Birdlike," and other hard-boiled, intense performances that were the ultimate example of bird bop!! Also, just to give you an idea, Charlie, Cobham, and Tabakin don't seem to have much to do with hard bop, but don't underestimate them! Haden plays the four-beat running bass with great force, Cobham plays a powerful four-beat that puts Tony Williams to shame, Tabakin plays with a dignified style that is comparable to Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson, and Brackeen is reminiscent of McCoy Tyner. All of them have been possessed by Freddie's soul, and their hard, boppish playing combines with Freddie's to create a swinging, thrilling performance that revives the performances on classic albums such as Freddie's first leader album "Open Sesame" for the prestigious Blue Note label and Hank Mobley's "Roll Call," on which he participated as a sideman. The entire album is an overwhelming, powerful performance that seems to recreate the golden age of jazz in the 1950s and 1960s!