Transmitting Live From Englewood

Rudy Van Gelder has engineered more classic Jazz recordings than you can count. Most of the essential Blue Note Records catalog can be attributed to his mastery. Those classic CTI Records albums of the 70's? Yeah....RVG recorded those as well.

Read the liner notes. Learn you something.

Happy Birthday, Mr. Van Gelder. Salute.

Nostrand and Fulton

Freddie Hubbard

1938-2008

I guess if I had to make the analogy [In Hip Hop terms]: Freddie Hubbard is the Nas to Miles Davis' Rakim. (see below)

God Bless.

Note: several of Freddie Hubbard's songs were sampled by notable hip Hop artists.

*** "Povo" from the Sky Dive LP.........sampled by Black Sheep for "Black with N.V." off the Wolf In Sheeps Clothing LP.

***"Little Sunflower" from the Backlash LP.........sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for "The Love" off the The Love Movement LP.

***"Red Clay" from the Red Clay LP.......sampled by A Tribe Called Quest for "Sucka N*gga" off the Midnight Marauders LP. Also re-worked by Dwele and Roy Hargrove for a live recording (Gilles Peterson BBC sessions and Dwele Live).