• A vinyl record sleeve for Ubbard's 'Breaking Point' on Blue Note, shown standing upright against a plain gray background. The cover features a black-and-white cracked-glass design with a blue and red 'UBBARD' banner at the top and a blue spine band with Japanese text.

Freddie Hubbard

Breaking Point

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VG+
MEDIA
  • NM-
YEAr
  • 1977 (1964)
COUNTRY
Japan
extras
  • Obi, Insert, Stereo, Reissue
IF YOU LIKE
  • Jazz,
  • Post Bop
  • Hard Bop
  • Modal
  • Wayne Shorter
  • Joe Henderson
  • Lee Morgan

Freddie Hubbard’s work often leaned toward the mainstream, even after he played on landmark avant-garde jazz recordings such as Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz and John Coltrane’s Ascension. Recorded in May 1964, soon after Hubbard left Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers to lead his own group, Breaking Point! showcases the trumpeter’s remarkable range. Across six tracks, including five Hubbard compositions, his quintet—James Spaulding on alto saxophone and flute, Ronnie Mathews on piano, Eddie Khan on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums—moves fluidly between styles. The title track shifts from free-form exploration to lively Calypso and back, while “Far Away” explores modal jazz, “Blue Frenzy” brings the blues, and Chambers’ “Mirrors” offers a graceful ballad. A standout entry in Hubbard’s Blue Note catalogue.