Freddie Hubbard
Trumpet Solo on
The Maze

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Freddie Hubbard's trumpet solo is the opening of 3 solos on this recording, followed by Dexter Gordon on tenor sax. Spanning nine choruses of the 8-Bar form at a medium-up 176 BPM with a swing feel in E, the solo runs approximately 1:41. Freddie Hubbard opens with nine intense choruses of trumpet, building a substantial improvisation over the short form with the technical brilliance and harmonic daring that characterized his playing. Freddie Hubbard was 23 to 24 years old at the time of this 1962 recording. The harmony features cycles of half-diminished and altered dominant chords that wind through shifting tonal centers, giving the piece a sense of searching restlessness rather than simple resolution.

Freddie Hubbard was 23 to 24 years old at the time.