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Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Freddie Hubbard started playing the mellophone and later the trumpet in his school band. He attended the Jordan Conservatory. As a teenager he worked locally with Wes and Monk Montgomery. In 1958 he moved to New York were he started playing with people like Quincy Jones, Eric Dolphy, Slide Hampton, and [...]

Before I start this post, I wanted to say that I realized last night that I’d already put up a performance of “Donna Lee” this week. Sorry about that. Maybe I should change the name of the blog to “Stop and Hear Donna Lee”.
Art Blakey was born in 1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Raised by [...]