Keep Your Soul Together Freddie Hubbard Artist

Trumpeter {|Freddie Hubbard's|} CTI recordings have long been underrated and a bit downgraded by writers who get them confused with his much commercial output for Columbia. For this LP (not yet reissued on CD) {|Hubbard|} is heard in fine form on four of his originals (highlighted by {|Spirits of Trane|}) with a septet that includes tenor-saxophonist {|Junior Cook|}, keyboardist {|George Cables|}, guitarist {|Aurell Ray|}, either {|Kent Brinkley|} or {|Ron Carter|} on bass, drummer {|Ralph Penland|} and Juno Lewis on percussion. The music is sometimes funky but definitely creative jazz with {|Hubbard|} heard during his prime period. ~ Scott Yanow