Gleam (album)

Gleam
Live album by Freddie Hubbard
Released	1975
Recorded	March 17, 1975
Genre	Jazz
Label	Sony Music Japan
Producer	Keiichi Nakamura
Freddie Hubbard chronology
High Energy (1974) Gleam (1975) Liquid Love (1975)

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Gleam is a live album recorded in 1975 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released as a double LP on Sony Music Japan and features a live performance recorded in Tokyo by Hubbard, Carl Randall, George Cables, Henry Franklin, Carl Burnett and Buck Clark. The selections are extended performances of material from Hubbard's recent albums "High Energy" and "Polar AC"; as well as three songs from the upcoming and as of then unrecorded album "Liquid Love". (Sessions for "Liquid Love" began the day after this concert.) In 2012 the album was released as a double cd on the Wounded Bird label.

Track listing[]

1. "Put It In The Pocket"
2. "Ebony Moonbeams"
3. "Betcha By Golly Wow"
4. "Spirits Of Trane"
5. "Kuntu"
6. "Midnight At The Oasis" (Nichtern)
7. "Too High" (Wonder)

All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated

• Recorded at the Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo on March 17, 1975

Personnel[]

• Freddie Hubbard: trumpet, flugelhorn
• George Cables: electric piano
• Carl Randall: tenor saxophone. flute
• Henry Franklin: Fender bass
• Carl Burnett: drums
• Buck Clarke: congas, percussion

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