Super Blue

1978 studio album by Freddie Hubbard

Super Blue

Studio album by

Freddie Hubbard

Released

1978

Recorded

March 30, 31 , April 1 & 4 1978

Studio

CBS (New York City)
A&M (Hollywood)

Genre

Jazz

Label

Columbia

Producer

Dale Oehler

Freddie Hubbard chronology

Bundle of Joy
(1976)

Super Blue
(1978)

The Love Connection
(1979)

Super Blue is a 1978 album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard. It was released on the Columbia label and peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Charts. The album features performances by Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Joe Henderson and Kenny Barron with George Benson guesting on one track. In 2007 the album was rereleased on the Mosaic Contemporary label with three alternate takes.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

The Bay State Banner wrote that "Freddie now has returned to basic jazz playing none of the easy top 40 material that characterized most of his Columbia career... There are no inane funk cliches or three minute tunes."^[2]

Track listing

"Super Blue" (Benard Ighner) - 7:50
"To Her Ladyship" (Bill Frazier) - 6:01
"Take It To The Ozone" - 7:01
"The Gospel Truth" - 4:59
"The Surest Things Can Change" (Gino Vannelli) - 6:20
"Theme For Kareem" - 6:07
"Super Blue" [alternate take] (Ira Ingher) - 10:36 Bonus track on 2007 CD reissue
"Take It To The Ozone" [alternate take] - 6:56 Bonus track on 2007 CD reissue
"Theme For Kareem" [alternate take] - 6:44 Bonus track on 2007 CD reissue

All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated

Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, New York, on March 30, 31 & April 1, 4, 1978, by Don Puluse, mixed at A&M Studios, Hollywood

Personnel

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet and flugelhorn
Hubert Laws - flutes
Joe Henderson - tenor sax
Ron Carter - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums
Kenny Barron - keyboards
George Benson - guitar (track 2)
Dale Oehler - keyboards (track 1)

References

^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Super Blue [Bonus Tracks] - Freddie Hubbard | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
^ Wynn, Ron (20 July 1978). "Improvisation". Bay State Banner. No. 41. p. 16.

Freddie Hubbard

Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.

Albums
as
leader
or
co-leader

Open Sesame (1960)
Goin' Up (1960)
Hub Cap (1961)
Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961)
Ready for Freddie (1961)
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962)
Hub-Tones (1962)
Here to Stay (1962)
The Body & the Soul (1963)
Breaking Point! (1964)
Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965)
The Night of the Cookers (1965)
Blue Spirits (1965–66)
Backlash (1966)
High Blues Pressure (1967)
A Soul Experiment (1968–69)
The Black Angel (1969)
The Hub of Hubbard (1970)
Red Clay (1970)
Straight Life (1970)
Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970)
First Light (1971)
Polar AC (1971–73)
Sky Dive (1972)
Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973)
In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974)
High Energy (1974)
Gleam (1975)
Liquid Love (1975)
Windjammer (1976)
Bundle of Joy (1977)
Super Blue (1978)
The Love Connection (1979)
Skagly (1979)
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980)
The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980)
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980)
Born to Be Blue (1981)
Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981)
Outpost (1981)
Rollin' (1981)
Splash (1981)
Above & Beyond (1982)
Back to Birdland (1982)
Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982)
Ride Like the Wind (1982)
The Rose Tattoo (1983)
Sweet Return (1983)
Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985)
Life Flight (1987)
The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987)
Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988)
Times Are Changing (1989)
Topsy – Standard Book (1989)
Bolivia (1990–91)
At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991)
Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991)
Blues for Miles (1992)
MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95)
New Colors (2000)
On the Real Side (2007)

With Art
Blakey/The
Jazz
Messengers

Mosaic (1961)
Buhaina's Delight (1961)
Blues March (1961)
Three Blind Mice (1961)
Caravan (1962)
Ugetsu (1963)
Kyoto (1964)
Free for All (1964)
Golden Boy (1965)
Soul Finger (1965)

With
Dexter
Gordon

Doin' Allright (1961)
Clubhouse (1965)
Generation (1973)
The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)

With
Herbie
Hancock

Takin' Off (1962)
Empyrean Isles (1964)
Maiden Voyage (1965)
Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966)
V.S.O.P. (1977)
V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977)
V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977)
V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977)
Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)

With
Bobby
Hutcherson

Dialogue (1965)
Components (1965)
Knucklebean (1977)
Highway One (1978)

With
Quincy
Jones

I Dig Dancers (1960)
The Quintessence (1962)
Golden Boy (1964)
I/We Had a Ball (1964–65)
Walking in Space (1969)
Gula Matari (1970)

With
Wayne
Shorter

Wayning Moments (1961)
Speak No Evil (1964)
The Soothsayer (1965)
The All Seeing Eye (1965)

With
others

The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966)
The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969)
Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960)
True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960)
God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971)
Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979)
Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961)
Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965)
Muses for Richard Davis (1969)
Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960)
Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964)
Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973)
Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962)
Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979)
Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962)
Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961)
Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962)
Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960)
Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996)
Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965)
Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965)
Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972)
Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973)
52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978)
Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988)
J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982)
Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62)
Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979)
Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963)
Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961)
MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994)
Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958)
Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960)
The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961)
Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966)
The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965)
Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965)
East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966)
Numbers (Rufus, 1978)
Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973)
Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970)
Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978)
Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980)
Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980)
Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)

v t e Kenny Barron
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums as leader or co-leader	You Had Better Listen (with Jimmy Owens, 1967) Sunset to Dawn (1973) Peruvian Blue (1974) In Tandem (and Ted Dunbar, 1975) Lucifer (1975) Innocence (1978) Together (and Tommy Flanagan, 1978) Golden Lotus (1980) Kenny Barron at the Piano (1981) Imo Live (1982) Spiral (1982) Green Chimneys (1983–87) 1+1+1 (1984) Autumn in New York (1984) Landscape (1984) Scratch (1985) The Red Barron Duo (and Red Mitchell, 1986) Two as One (and Buster Williams, 1986) What If? (1986) Live at Fat Tuesdays (1988) Rhythm-a-Ning (and John Hicks, 1989) Invitation (1990) Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Ten (1990) The Only One (1990) Confirmation (and Barry Harris, 1991) Lemuria-Seascape (1991) The Moment (1991) Quickstep (1991) Sambao (1992) Other Places (1993) Wanton Spirit (1994) Swamp Sally (and Mino Cinelu, 1995) Things Unseen (1995) Live at Bradley's (1996) Live at Bradley's II (1996) Night and the City (and Charlie Haden, 1996) Spirit Song (1999) Canta Brasil (2000) Freefall (and Regina Carter, 2000) Images (2003) Super Standard (2004) The Traveler (2007) Minor Blues (2009) Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights (2012) The Art of Conversation (and Dave Holland, 2014) Book of Intuition (2015) Concentric Circles (2018) Without Deception (and Dave Holland, 2020) The Source (2023)
Member of Sphere	Four in One (1982) Flight Path (1983) Sphere On Tour (1985) Pumpkin's Delight (1986) Four for All (1987) Bird Songs (1988)
With Bill Barron	Modern Windows (1961) The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961) Hot Line (1962) West Side Story Bossa Nova (1963) Jazz Caper (1978) Variations in Blue (1983) Live at Cobi's 2 (1985) The Next Plateau (1987)
With Ron Carter	Pastels (1976) Yellow & Green (1976) Peg Leg (1977) Piccolo (1977) A Song for You (1978) Pick 'Em (1978) New York Slick (1979) Patrão (1980) Super Strings (1981) So What? (1998)
With Stan Getz	Voyage (1986) Anniversary! (1987) Serenity (1987) Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions (1989) People Time: The Complete Recordings (1991)
With Dizzy Gillespie	Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1963) Something Old, Something New (1963) I/We Had a Ball (multiple leaders, 1964) Jambo Caribe (1964) The Cool World (1964) Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert (multiple leaders, 1965) The Melody Lingers On (1966)
With Freddie Hubbard	High Blues Pressure (1967) A Soul Experiment (1968–69) The Black Angel (1969) Sing Me a Song of Songmy (İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970) Super Blue (1978) Outpost (1981) The Rose Tattoo (1983)
With Yusef Lateef	The Centaur and the Phoenix (arranger, 1960) The Gentle Giant (1970–71) Part of the Search (1971–73) Hush 'N' Thunder (1972) 10 Years Hence (1974) The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976)
With James Moody	Another Bag (1962) Comin' On Strong (1963) Moody and the Brass Figures (1966) The Blues and Other Colors (1968–69) Feelin' It Together (1973)
With Buddy Rich	The Last Blues Album Volume 1 (1974) Transition (and Lionel Hampton, 1974) Very Live at Buddy's Place (1974) Speak No Evil (released 1976)
With others	Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein (Karrin Allyson, 2015) Live at the Blue Note (Franco Ambrosetti, 1992) Mustang (Curtis Amy, 1967) Old Bottles - New Wine (Ray Anderson, 1985) The Best Thing for You (Chet Baker, 1977) You Can't Go Home Again (Chet Baker, 1977) Studio Trieste (Chet Baker and Hubert Laws, 1982) Bad Benson (George Benson, 1974) Code Red (Cindy Blackman, 1990) The Oracle (Cindy Blackman, 1995) Shining Hour (Larry Coryell, 1989) Quicksand (Ted Curson, 1974) Continuum (Ray Drummond, 1994) Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967) Tex Book Tenor (Booker Ervin, 1968) All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald, 1989) Awakening (Sonny Fortune, 1975) Two for the Blues (Frank Foster and Frank Wess, 1983) Frankly Speaking (Frank Foster and Frank Wess, 1984) Tiger in the Rain (Michael Franks, 1978) Man & Woman (George Freeman, 1974) Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard (Jim Hall, 1996) Light and Lively (Louis Hayes, 1989) Una Max (Louis Hayes, 1989) The Gap Sealer (Albert Heath, 1972) Kwanza (The First) (Jimmy Heath, 1973) Now! (Bobby Hutcherson, 1969) In the Vanguard (Bobby Hutcherson, 1986) New Agenda (Elvin Jones, 1975) Time Capsule (Elvin Jones, 1977) The Bassist! (Sam Jones, 1979) We're Goin' Up (Eric Kloss, 1967) Jazz Nocturne (Lee Konitz, 1992) Number Two Express (Christian McBride, 1995) Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown (Helen Merrill, 1995) Never Never Land (Jane Monheit, 2000) Peace and Rhythm (Idris Muhammad, 1971) A Time for Love (Arturo Sandoval, 2010) This Bud's for You... (Bud Shank, 1984) Solid (Woody Shaw, 1986) Kamau (Charles Sullivan, 1995) Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972) A Bluish Bag (Stanley Turrentine, 1967) Jazz French Horn (Tom Varner, 1985) Listen Here (Roseanna Vitro, 1982) Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967) Two at the Top (Frank Wess and Johnny Coles, 1983) New York, New Sound (Gerald Wilson, 2003)
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