Splash (Freddie Hubbard album)

1981 studio album by Freddie Hubbard

Splash

Studio album by

Freddie Hubbard

Released| 1981
Genre| Jazz
Label| Fantasy
Producer| Freddie Hubbard & Al Hall Jr.
Freddie Hubbard chronology
| Mistral
(1981)  | Splash
(1981)  | Rollin'
(1981)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
Allmusic| [1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide| [2]

Splash is a studio album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard released in 1981 on the Fantasy label which features performances by Hubbard with several R&B/soul session musicians.[3]

## Reception

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The Allmusic biography by Scott Yanow identifies the album as one of Hubbard's "low points" [4] but still features some fine playing albeit not for pure jazz listeners.

## Track listing

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1. "Splash" (David "Cat" Cohen, Thurlene Johnson) - 5:02
2. "Mystic Lady" - 4:53
3. "I'm Yours" (Clarence McDonald, Hall) - 4:51
4. "Touchdown" (Cohen, Don Tracy) - 5:08
5. "You're Gonna Lose Me" (Cynthia Faulkner, Jackie Morissette, Hall) (featuring Jeanie Tracy) - 5:20
6. "Sister 'Stine" - 5:24
7. "Jarri" - 6:34

All compositions by Al Hall Jr. & Freddie Hubbard except as indicated

## Personnel

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* Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn, producer
* David T. Walker \- guitar
* Paul Jackson Jr. \- guitar
* Louis Small - keyboards
* Clarence McDonald \- keyboards
* Chester Thompson \- keyboards
* Ron Brown - bass
* David Shields - bass
* Jim Keltner \- drums
* James Gadson \- drums
* Al Hall Jr. - synthesizer, trombone, percussion, producer, arranger
* William "Buck" Clarke \- percussion, conga
* Tony Flores - percussion
* Maurice "Mo" Young - backing vocals
* Jeanie Tracy \- vocals, backing vocals
* Juan Escovedo - bongos
* Joe Sugayan - congas, percussion

## References

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1. ^ Allmusic Review
2. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106\. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. ^ Kuroff, Barbara Norton (1983). Songwriter's market. Writer's Digest Books. p. 224\. ISBN 9780898791235. Retrieved 20 January 2020.
4. ^ Yanow, S. Freddie Hubbard biography, Allmusic, accessed June 10, 2009.

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Albums

leader

co-leader|

* Open Sesame (1960)
* Goin' Up (1960)
* Hub Cap (1961)
* Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961)
* Ready for Freddie (1961)
* The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962)
* Hub-Tones (1962)
* Here to Stay (1962)
* The Body & the Soul (1963)
* Breaking Point! (1964)
* Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965)
* The Night of the Cookers (1965)
* Blue Spirits (1965–66)
* Backlash (1966)
* High Blues Pressure (1967)
* A Soul Experiment (1968–69)
* The Black Angel (1969)
* The Hub of Hubbard (1970)
* Red Clay (1970)
* Straight Life (1970)
* Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970)
* First Light (1971)
* Polar AC (1971–73)
* Sky Dive (1972)
* Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
* Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973)
* In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974)
* High Energy (1974)
* Gleam (1975)
* Liquid Love (1975)
* Windjammer (1976)
* Bundle of Joy (1977)
* Super Blue (1978)
* The Love Connection (1979)
* Skagly (1979)
* Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980)
* The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980)
* The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980)
* Born to Be Blue (1981)
* Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981)
* Outpost (1981)
* Rollin' (1981)
* Splash (1981)
* Above & Beyond (1982)
* Back to Birdland (1982)
* Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982)
* Ride Like the Wind (1982)
* The Rose Tattoo (1983)
* Sweet Return (1983)
* Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985)
* Life Flight (1987)
* The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987)
* Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988)
* Times Are Changing (1989)
* Topsy – Standard Book (1989)
* Bolivia (1990–91)
* At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991)
* Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991)
* Blues for Miles (1992)
* MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95)
* New Colors (2000)
* On the Real Side (2007)

With Art
Blakey/The
Jazz
Messengers|

* Mosaic (1961)
* Buhaina's Delight (1961)
* Blues March (1961)
* Three Blind Mice (1961)
* Caravan (1962)
* Ugetsu (1963)
* Kyoto (1964)
* Free for All (1964)
* Golden Boy (1965)
* Soul Finger (1965)

With
Dexter
Gordon|

* Doin' Allright (1961)
* Clubhouse (1965)
* Generation (1973)
* The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)

With
Herbie
Hancock|

* Takin' Off (1962)
* Empyrean Isles (1964)
* Maiden Voyage (1965)
* Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966)
* V.S.O.P. (1977)
* V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977)
* V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977)
* V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977)
* Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)

With
Bobby
Hutcherson|

* Dialogue (1965)
* Components (1965)
* Knucklebean (1977)
* Highway One (1978)

With
Quincy
Jones|

* I Dig Dancers (1960)
* The Quintessence (1962)
* Golden Boy (1964)
* I/We Had a Ball (1964–65)
* Walking in Space (1969)
* Gula Matari (1970)

With
Wayne
Shorter|

* Wayning Moments (1961)
* Speak No Evil (1964)
* The Soothsayer (1965)
* The All Seeing Eye (1965)

With
others|

* The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966)
* The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969)
* Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960)
* True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960)
* God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971)
* Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979)
* Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
* Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
* Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961)
* Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
* Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965)
* Muses for Richard Davis (1969)
* Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960)
* Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964)
* Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
* Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973)
* Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
* Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962)
* Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979)
* Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
* Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
* Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962)
* Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961)
* Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962)
* Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
* Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960)
* Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
* The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
* Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
* Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996)
* Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965)
* Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965)
* Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972)
* Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973)
* 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978)
* Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988)
* J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
* Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982)
* Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62)
* Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979)
* Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963)
* Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961)
* MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994)
* Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958)
* Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960)
* The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961)
* Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966)
* The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
* Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965)
* Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965)
* East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966)
* Numbers (Rufus, 1978)
* Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
* Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973)
* Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970)
* Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978)
* Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980)
* Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980)
* Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
* Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)

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