Red Clay

Red Clay is a soul/funk-influenced hard bop album recorded in 1970 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.[4][5] It was his first album on Creed Taylor's CTI label and marked a shift toward the soul-jazz fusion sounds that would dominate his recordings in the later part of the decade. It is Hubbard's seventeenth album.

For other uses, see Red Clay (disambiguation).
Red Clay
Studio album by
Freddie Hubbard
ReleasedMay 1970 [1]
RecordedJanuary 27–29, 1970
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreHard bop, jazz fusion, soul jazz
Length49:12 (CD reissue)
LabelCTI
CTI 6001
ProducerCreed Taylor
Freddie Hubbard chronology
The Hub of Hubbard
(1970)		 Red Clay
(1970)		 Sing Me a Song of Songmy
(1970)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Upon its release, it entered at number 20 on Billboard’s Top 20 Best Selling Jazz LPs, on June 20, 1970.

Reception

Bill Milkowski of JazzTimes commented "...Red Clay, an album that would not only define Hubbard’s direction over the next decade while setting the template for all future CTI recordings, but would also have a dramatic impact on a generation of trumpet players coming up in the ’70s. Red Clay would become Hubbard’s signature tune throughout his career."[6] Thom Jurek of AllMusic stated "This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader, in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On Red Clay, Hubbard combines hard bop's glorious blues-out past with the soulful innovations of mainstream jazz in the 1960s, and reads them through the chunky groove innovations of '70s jazz fusion... This is a classic, hands down."[2] Tom Moon in 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die wrote "Red Clay is one of those records that mucks up the neat evolution narrative of jazz."[7]

Track listing

All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except where noted

  1. "Red Clay" - 12:11
  2. "Delphia" - 7:23
  3. "Suite Sioux" - 8:38
  4. "The Intrepid Fox" - 10:45
  5. "Cold Turkey" (John Lennon) - 10:27 (recorded at original session - not released until CD issue)
  6. "Red Clay" [Live] - 18:44 Bonus track on the 2001 and 2010 CD releases
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 27–29, 1970 except track 6 recorded live at the Southgate Palace in Los Angeles on July 19, 1971.

Personnel

Track 6 Personnel

References
  1. Billboard June 20, 1970
  2. Jurek, Thom (2011). "Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz. Virgin. p. 423. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  5. Liebman, Dave (2012). What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist. Scarecrow Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-8108-8254-6. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  6. Milkowski, Bill (9 August 2010). "Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay". JazzTimes. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
  7. Moon, Tom (2008). 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. Workman Publishing. p. 372. ISBN 978-0-7611-5385-6. Retrieved 16 December 2019. Red Clay - freddie hubbard.
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