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Freddie Hubbard - The Summer Knows (Live)

The process of identifying a history and tradition of jazz has been one of the most significant influences on jazz music and culture. The quick succession of stylistic changes in jazz have often caused disagreements as to the role of innovation in jazz and the character of its authentic forms. While these disagreements are now largely amongst academics, throughout the twentieth century musicians, critics, and members of the music industry had been the principal actors in formulating jazz history. Their participation has helped shape the music itself, the manner in which it is performed, and its place in American culture. The revival of ‘traditional’ jazz that started in the late 1930s marked the first major impact of history on the industry.

The revivalists were a group of musicians and critics who often complained that the developments that characterised swing were too formulaic and clich´ed. Traditionalist critics such as Rudi Blesh, David Stuart, and Ralph J. Gleason thus promoted jazz musicians from the 1920s and earlier as purveyors of the timeless and historically significant style. While a large number of white musicians participated in this revival, the focus of most traditionalist critics, journals, and record labels was on the black musicians of New Orleans. Many of these ‘original’ New Orleans musicians represented the uneducated, ‘folk’ roots of jazz epitomised by the experiences of many blacks in the early twentieth century South. In fact, it was their ‘folk’ quality that implied their authenticity and historical significance as the pioneers of American popular music.


Freddie Hubbard - The Summer Knows (Live)
  • Genres Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk
  • Theme from "Summer of 42"
  • Recorded December 1979

"Freddie Hubbard achieved his greatest popular success in the 1970s with a series of albums for Creed Taylor and his record label CTI Records. In the 1980s Hubbard was again leading his own jazz group attracting favorable reviews, playing at concerts and festivals in the US and Europe."

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