The Best of Freddie Hubbard

Tracklist

• 1
  Red Clay
  12:08
• 2
  First Light
  11:04
• 3
  Lonely Town (From “On the Town’)
  7:00
• 4
  Betcha by Golly Wow
  8:12
• 5
  Sky Dive
  7:34
• 6
  The Godfather (From the Paramount Motionpicture “The Godfather”)
  7:20
• 7
  Free as a Bird
  8:39
• 8
  Here’s That Rainy Day
  8:36

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Release credits

• Airto Moreira
  percussion [2-6]
• Al Rubin
  flugelhorn [5-6], trumpet [5-6]
• Anthony Sophos
  strings [4]
• Billy Cobham
  drums (drum set) [5-6]
• Bob Bushnell
  bass [1]
• Bob James
  arranger [4]
• Charles Libove
  strings [4]
• Charles McCracken
  strings [4]
• Creed Taylor
  producer [1-6]
• David Nadien
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Don Sebesky
  arranger [2-3, 5-6], conductor [2-3, 5-6]
• Ed Shaughnessy
  percussion [1]
• Emanuel Green
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Emanuel Vardi
  strings [4]
• Freddie Hubbard
  trumpet [1-6]
• Garnett Brown
  trombone [5-6]
• Gene Orloff
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• George Benson
  guitar [2-6]
• George Marge
  clarinet [2-3, 5-6], flute [2-3]
• George Ricci
  strings [4]
• Harold Kohon
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Herbie Hancock
  piano [1]
• Hubert Laws
  flute [2-6]
• Irving Spice
  violin [2-3]
• Jack DeJohnette
  drums (drum set) [2-3]
• Jim Buffington
  French horn [2-3]
• Joe Henderson
  saxophone [1]
• Joe Malin
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Junior Cook
  tenor saxophone [4]
• Keith Jarrett
  piano [5-6]
• Lenny White
  drums (drum set) [1, 4]
• Margaret Ross
  harp [2-3]
• Marvin Stamm
  flugelhorn [5-6], trumpet [5-6]
• Matthew Raimondi
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Max Ellen
  strings [4]
• Paul Faulise
  bass trombone [5-6]
• Paul Gershman
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Phil Bodner
  woodwind [5-6]
• Phil Kraus
  vibraphone [2-3]
• Ray Alonge
  French horn [2-3]
• Ray Barretto
  percussion [5-6]
• Richard Wyands
  piano [2-3]
• Romeo Penque
  wind instruments [2-3], woodwind [5-6]
• Ron Carter
  bass [1-6], double bass [1]
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer [1-6], recording [1-3, 5-6]
• Theodore Israel
  strings [4]
• Tony Price
  tuba [5-6]
• Tosha Samaroff
  strings [4], violin [2-3]
• Wayne Andre
  trombone [5-6]
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  The Best of Freddie Hubbard

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  19 April 1990
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