Trumpeter
Freddie Hubbard teams up with veteran tenor-saxophonist
Harold Land and
Hubbard's regular rhythm section of the period (keyboardist
Billy Childs, bassist
Larry Klein, drummer
Steve Houghton and percussionist
Buck Clark) on this fine modern hard bop CD, a straight reissue of the original Pablo LP.
Hubbard had hurt his reputation with his very commercial Columbia recordings of the mid-to-late '70s so in 1981 he was doing his best to return to his brand of straightahead jazz. This date is highlighted by "Gibraltar,"
Clifford Brown's "Joy Spring" and a revisit to
Hubbard's "Up Jumped Spring." ~ Scott Yanow