Quincy Jones featuring Bill Cosby / Hicky Burr

Sunday Jazz Continues...checking out this classic track from Quincy Jones  called Hicky Burr. This features none other than Bill Cosby on the track...being that it was once a theme for the Bill Cosby Show on NBC..check out the other players and the track...  

• Drums – Grady Tate, Paul Humphries
• Electric Bass [Fender] – Carol Kaye, Chuck Rainey
• Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Bob James, Jaki Byard, Joe Sample 
• Soloist, Flugelhorn – Freddie Hubbard
• Soloist, Flute – Hubert Laws
• Soloist, Guitar – Eric Gayle, Toots Thielemans
• Soloist, Whistling [Whistler] – Toots Thielemans
• Vocals – Bill Cosby   

   

Freddie Hubbard - Destinys Children

Digital Crate Digging Continues...checking out some more classic jazz / funk....this time its Freddie Hubbard with a cut called  Destinys Children 

Check out the players and the track....
 
Musicians: Freddie Hubbard - Trumpet/Flugelhorn | George Cables - Electric Piano | Kent Brinkley & Ron Carter - Acoustic & Electric Bass | Ralph Penland - Drums | Juno Lewis - Dahka-Doom/Dahka-De-Bello | Aurell Ray - Guitar | Junior Cook - Tenor Saxophone
 

VSOP The Quintet Reunion / Eye Of The Hurricane

Digital Crate Digging Continues....still on some jazz / funk

..checking out VSOP The Quintet...in a reunion concert in 1986 at the  Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival. ...hitting us up with a song called Eye Of The Hurricane...

VSOP The Quintet is a super group consisting of  Freddie Hubbard: on trumpet / Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone


Herbie Hancock on piano /  Ron Carter on bass / and Tony Williams on drums...check them out...
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Fantasy in D / Freddie Hubbard Quartet

Digital Crate Digging Continues....checking out the Freddie Hubbard Quartet with their classic cut called Fantasy in D.... Live at the Village Vanguard, NYC, 1982....check out the players and the track..

Freddie Hubbard (trumpet)  ...Cedar Walton (piano)

Ron Carter (bass)    Lenny White (drums) 

Charles Earland "Leaving This Planet"

Digital Crate Digging Continues....still on the jazz / funk tip....checking out organist Charles Earland...Leaving This Planet

...Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, and Eddie Henderson. were rolling with him on this project...classic material y'all!!! plus I feel him on this....I wan't to leave this planet myself....sometimes I do!! but that's another story...details coming soon.....in the meantime check this out!!

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - The Core

Digital Crate Digging Continues....at the 9 to 5 I was listening to hip hop all day...something to keep me " geeked" or " hyped" ..now I'm chilling out at the "spot" ...in a jazz mood....why not listen to some Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers with Core?

...the players?  Art Blakey on drums...Freddie Hubbard on trumpet....Curtis Fuller on trombone     

 Wayne Shorter on saxophone......Cedar Walton on piano....    Reggie Workman on double bass

Brotha O's Jazz Mix

Sunday Jazz Continues...check out this mix I put together featuring Grover Washington, Freddie Hubbard, The Crusaders and others...