Freddie Hubbard
Flugal Horn Solo on
Here's That Rainy Day

About

Freddie Hubbard's flugal horn solo is the sole improvisation on this recording of "Here's That Rainy Day". Spanning one chorus of the 32-bar AA' form in E♭ at a slow 58 BPM with a ballad feel, this reading demonstrates Hubbard's versatility and his deep roots in the tradition of jazz balladry, connecting his work to the lineage of Clifford Brown and Miles Davis as interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Hubbard's flugelhorn solo brings a warmer, rounder tone than the trumpet, lending the improvisation a lyrical quality well suited to the material.

Freddie Hubbard was 31 to 32 years old at the time.