Gleam (album) explained

Gleam
Type:Live album
Artist:Freddie Hubbard
Cover:Gleam (album).jpg
Released:1975
Recorded:March 17, 1975
Venue:Yūbin Chokin Hall, Minato, Tokyo
Genre:Jazz
Label:CBS/Sony
Producer:Keiichi Nakamura
Prev Title:High Energy
Prev Year:1974
Next Title:Liquid Love
Next Year:1975

is a live album recorded in 1975 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was released as a double LP on CBS/Sony and features a live performance recorded in Tokyo by Hubbard, Carl Randall, George Cables, Henry Franklin, Carl Burnett and Buck Clark.

The selections are extended performances of material from Hubbard's recent albums "High Energy" and "Polar AC"; as well as three songs from the upcoming and as of then unrecorded album "Liquid Love". (Sessions for "Liquid Love" began the day after this concert.) In 2012 the album was released as a double cd on the Wounded Bird Records label.

Track listing

  1. "Put It In The Pocket"
  2. "Ebony Moonbeams"
  3. "Betcha By Golly Wow"
  4. "Spirits Of Trane"
  5. "Kuntu"
  6. "Midnight At The Oasis" (Nichtern)
  7. "Too High" (Wonder)

All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated

Personnel