Freddie Hubbard, highly influential jazz trumpeter dies

by thecodepounder on December 30, 2008 at 7:16am

Freddie Hubbard died yesterday at the age of 70:

A towering figure in jazz circles, Hubbard played on hundreds of recordings in a career dating to 1958, the year he arrived in New York from his hometown Indianapolis, where he had studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and with the Indianapolis Symphony.

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