Sing Me a Song

Freddie Hubbard - Sing Me a Song Of Songmy (1971) {Atlantic Masters 81227-3669-2 rel 2003}
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© 1971, 2003 Atlantic Masters / Warner | 81227-3669-2
Jazz / Post Bop / Electroacoustic Music / Trumpet

After having been out of print for nearly thirty years, this classic mindblower from 1971 has at last been reissued on CD. This is much more than a 'jazz' recording by Freddie Hubbard. Quoting the original album cover, what we have here is SING ME A SONG OF SONGMY, "A Fantasy for Electromagnetic Tape, featuring Freddie Hubbard and his Quintet, with Reciters, Chorus, String Orchestra, Hammond Organ, Synthesized & Processed Sounds,Composed & Realized by ILHAN MIMAROGLU on Poems by Fazil Husnu Daglarca & Other Texts". What the CD reissue liner notes fail to emphasize is that this is really an Ilhan Mimaroglu album. Not to devalue the first-rate performances by Hubbard & his group, but calling this a Freddie Hubbard album is somewhat misleading.

Sing Me a Song of Songmy (1971). Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and his quintet (which consisted of tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Art Booth and drummer Louis Hayes) is joined by a chorus, a string orchestra, several reciters, an organist and a variety of processed sounds emanating from tapes. The thoughts expressed in the music (topical and anti-war messages) are quite sincere but the abstract sounds will only be enjoyed by a limited audience.
Echoes of Blue (1976). An exersize in complete contrast, Ecchos Of Blue starts with a latin number and gets us back on familier ground. The whole record is the sophisicated hard bop that Hubbard was so adept at playing. He seemed to learn from experiments like Songmy and applied it when he went back to straight material.

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