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Record Store Day delivers a keeper, from the great Freddie Hubbard

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Nate Chinen
Apr 10, 2025
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Freddie Hubbard, trumpet superhero. (Freddy Warren © Simon Whittle)

Freddie Hubbard was spitting fire in the Bronx

on this day 58 years ago: April 10, 1967. A modern jazz trumpeter firmly in his prime, he had celebrated a birthday just three days prior, turning 29.

The previous year, Hubbard ended his Hall of Fame run on Blue Note Records, signing to Atla…

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