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Freddie Hubbard follows Tony Williams's opening drum statement with an extended open-form trumpet solo on "Survival of the Fittest" at approximately 280 BPM, his playing reaching extraordinary heights of passion and technical brilliance. The rhythm section of Ron Carter and Williams drives him forward with relentless energy as he navigates the open harmonic territory with improvisational daring. As the second soloist, Hubbard's fierce trumpet work represents some of his most uninhibited playing on the Maiden Voyage album, the absence of predetermined chord changes allowing him to push to the limits of his abilities in the spirit of creative competition that the composition's Darwinian title suggests.
Freddie Hubbard was 26 to 27 years old at the time.
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