Release type
ALBUM
First Light (CTI Records 40th Anniversary Edition)
Product information
From $6.93
1970
7 Tracks
59:00
Release options
Originally Released 1971 Sony Music Entertainment / (P) 1975, 2003 Sony Music Entertainment
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1
First Light
11:04
Popularity 10/10 -
2
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
08:15
Popularity 8/10 -
3
Moment to Moment
05:44
Lyrics availablePopularity 6/10 -
4
Yesterday's Dreams
03:56
Popularity 5/10 -
5
Lonely Town (From "On the Town")
06:58
Popularity 5/10 -
6
Fantasy In D (Polar AC)
06:54
Popularity 5/10 -
7
First Light (Live)
16:04
Popularity 5/10
Never one to take lyricism for granted, trumpeter and composer Freddie Hubbard entered Creed Taylor's studio for the third time in 1971 with the express purpose of making a record radically different from anything he'd cut before; he was looking for it to use electricity and to be out of the soul-jazz mold, but was also more ambitious and wanted to push that envelope and himself. Taylor and Hubbard assembled a band that included Herbie Hancock on Rhodes, guitarists Eric Gale and George Benson, bassist Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette on drums, Airto Moreira on percussion, and Richard Wyands on acoustic piano to back him. The band was also supported by the truly ethereal and adventurous string arrangements of Don Sebesky (a first for Hubbard). The result is a masterpiece of textured sound, gorgeously far-flung charts, sweet, tight grooves, a subtle mystic feel, and some of Hubbard's most exciting playing ever. The title track and Hubbard's ingenious read of Paul and Linda McCartney's "Uncle Albert/ Admiral Halsey," as well as Leonard Bernstein's "Lonely Town," are so in the pocket that they bleed soul. Benson's uncharacteristically edgy guitar playing juxtaposed against Hubbard's warm tone, and Hancock's beautifully modal Rhodes lines that are drenched with big, open, minor chord voicings, are simply made more illustrious and graceful by Sebesky's strings. While Red Clay and Straight Life are both fine albums, First Light is the one that connects on all levels -- and it did with the jazz-buying public as well. A masterpiece. ~ Thom Jurek
1. First Light
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
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Wally Kane
Jane Taylor - Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Cello
-
George Ricci
Charles Mccracken - Clarinet
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Romeo Penque
George Marge - Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Composer
- F. Hubbard
- Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flugelhorn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Flute
-
Wally Kane
Hubert Laws
Romeo Penque
George Marge - French Horn
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Ray Alonge
James Buffington - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Performer
- Freddie Hubbard
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
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Alfred Brown
Emanuel Vardi - Violin
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Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green
Paul Gershman
Tosha Samaroff
Gene Orloff
David Nadien
Matthew Raimondi
Joe Malin
Irving Spice - Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
2. Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
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Wally Kane
Jane Taylor - Cello
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George Ricci
Charles Mccracken - Clarinet
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Romeo Penque
George Marge - Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Lyricist
- Mccartney
- Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Composer
- Mccartney
- Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flugelhorn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Flute
-
Wally Kane
Hubert Laws
Romeo Penque
George Marge - French Horn
-
Ray Alonge
James Buffington - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
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Emanuel Vardi
Alfred Brown - Violin
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Matthew Raimondi
Joe Malin
Irving Spice
Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green
Paul Gershman
Tosha Samaroff
Gene Orloff
David Nadien - Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
3. Moment to Moment
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
-
Jane Taylor
Wally Kane - Cello
-
George Ricci
Charles Mccracken - Clarinet
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George Marge
Romeo Penque - Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Lyricist
- Johnny Mercer
- Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flugelhorn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Flute
-
Wally Kane
Hubert Laws
Romeo Penque
George Marge - French Horn
-
Ray Alonge
James Buffington - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Performer
- Freddie Hubbard
- Composer
- Henry Mancini
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
-
Alfred Brown
Emanuel Vardi - Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Violin
-
Irving Spice
Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green
Paul Gershman
Tosha Samaroff
Gene Orloff
David Nadien
Matthew Raimondi
Joe Malin - Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
4. Yesterday's Dreams
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
-
Jane Taylor
Wally Kane - Cello
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Charles Mccracken
George Ricci - Clarinet
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George Marge
Romeo Penque - Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Lyricist
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N. Martin
D. Sebesky - Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Composer
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N. Martin
D. Sebesky - Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flute
-
Wally Kane
George Marge
Romeo Penque
Hubert Laws - French Horn
-
Ray Alonge
James Buffington - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Trumpet
- Freddie Hubbard
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
-
Emanuel Vardi
Alfred Brown - Violin
-
Irving Spice
Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green
Paul Gershman
Tosha Samaroff
Gene Orloff
David Nadien
Matthew Raimondi
Joe Malin - Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
5. Lonely Town (From "On the Town")
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
-
Jane Taylor
Wally Kane - Cello
-
George Ricci
Charles Mccracken - Clarinet
-
Romeo Penque
George Marge - Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Lyricist
-
L. Bernstein
Betty Comden
Adolph Green
Leonard Bernstein - Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Composer
-
L. Bernstein
Adolph Green
Betty Comden
Leonard Bernstein - Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flugelhorn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Flute
-
George Marge
Romeo Penque
Wally Kane
Hubert Laws - French Horn
-
James Buffington
Ray Alonge - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
-
Emanuel Vardi
Alfred Brown - Violin
-
Paul Gershman
Matthew Raimondi
David Nadien
Gene Orloff
Tosha Samaroff
Joe Malin
Irving Spice
Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green - Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
6. Fantasy In D (Polar AC)
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Bassoon
-
Wally Kane
Jane Taylor - Arranger
- Don Sebesky
- Cello
-
George Ricci
Charles Mccracken - Clarinet
-
Romeo Penque
George Marge - Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Cor Anglais
- Romeo Penque
- Composer
- C. Walton
- Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Electric Guitar
- George Benson
- Flugelhorn
- Freddie Hubbard
- Flute
-
Wally Kane
Hubert Laws
Romeo Penque
George Marge - French Horn
-
Ray Alonge
James Buffington - Harp
- Margaret Ross
- Oboe
- Romeo Penque
- Percussion
- Airto Moreira
- Performer
- Freddie Hubbard
- Piano
- Richard Wyands
- Vibraphone
- Phil Kraus
- Viola
-
Alfred Brown
Emanuel Vardi - Violin
-
Harold Kohon
Emanuel Green
Paul Gershman
Tosha Samaroff
Gene Orloff
David Nadien
Matthew Raimondi
Joe Malin
Irving Spice - Conductor
- Don Sebesky
- Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
7. First Light (Live)
- Bass
- Ron Carter
- Primary Artist
- Freddie Hubbard
- Drums
- Jack Dejohnette
- Piano
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Eric Gale
Herbie Hancock - Trumpet
- Freddie Hubbard
- Composer
- F. Hubbard
- Lyricist
- F. Hubbard
- Engineer
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Producer
- Creed Taylor
Technical Specifications
- Volume
- 1 volume only
- Tracks
- 7 tracks available
- Type
- ALBUM
- Format
- Digital Media
- Duration
- 59 minutes and 0 seconds
- Explicit
- None
- Coverart
- Available and up to 669x669 px
- Booklet
- Not available
- Max Quality
CD Quality (Lossless)
16bit / 44.1 kHz
Stereo
- Audio Extension
Lossless: FLAC, M4A, WAV, WV, AIFF
Lossy: AAC, MP3, M4A, MP4, OGA, OGG, OPUS, WMA
- Archive Format
- Available in these formats: ZIP, TAR, RAR
- Lyrics
- Only 1/7 tracks has lyrics
- Synchronized Lyrics
- No synced lyrics found
- Genres
- Jazz, Post Bop
- Label
- Masterworks Jazz
- Music Distribution Service
- Sony
- Country
United States- Language
- No linguistic content
- Popularity
- Popularity 1/10
- Release Date
- Dec 31, 1970
- Track Preview
- Available
- Delivery Charge
- Free
- Delivery Method
- Digital download link via Email or Personal Dashboard on this site
- UPC
- 884977924541
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