Red Clay

{{about}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Red Clay | type = Studio Album | artist = Freddie Hubbard | cover = FreddieHubbard RedClay.jpg | alt = | released = May 1970<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=dykEAAAAMBAJ&dq=hubbard+Red+Clay&pg=PA53 ''Billboard'' June 20, 1970]</ref> | recorded = January 27–29, 1970 | venue = | studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | genre = Jazz fusion, soul jazz | length = 38:57 (original LP) | label = CTI CTI 6001 | producer = Creed Taylor | prev_title = The Hub of Hubbard | prev_year = 1970 | next_title = Straight Life | next_year = 1971 }} '''''Red Clay''''' is an album recorded in 1970 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Virgin encyclopedia of jazz |date=1999 |publisher=Virgin |page=423 |isbn=9781852277543 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIw4AQAAIAAJ&q=Red+Clay+-+freddie+hubbard |access-date=16 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Liebman |first1=Dave |title=What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist |date=2012 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-8254-6 |page=63 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRmxCmOPIhMC&pg=PA63 |access-date=16 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref> It was his first album on Creed Taylor's CTI label and marked a shift toward the soul-jazz fusion sounds that would dominate his recordings in the later part of the decade. It entered at number 20 on ''Billboard''’s Top 20 Best Selling Jazz LPs, on June 20, 1970.

==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name="AM">{{cite web |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/r104746 |title=Red Clay - Freddie Hubbard AllMusic |first=Thom |last=Jurek |work=allmusic.com |year=2011 |access-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> |rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide'' | rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 106 }}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=732}}</ref> }} Bill Milkowski of ''JazzTimes'' commented: "...''Red Clay'', an album that would not only define Hubbard's direction over the next decade while setting the template for all future CTI recordings, but would also have a dramatic impact on a generation of trumpet players coming up in the ’70s. ’Red Clay’ would become Hubbard's signature tune throughout his career."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Milkowski |first1=Bill |title=Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay |url=https://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/freddie-hubbard-red-clay/ |website=JazzTimes |access-date=16 December 2019 |date=9 August 2010}}</ref> Thom Jurek of AllMusic stated: "This may be Freddie Hubbard's finest moment as a leader, in that it embodies and utilizes all of his strengths as a composer, soloist, and frontman. On ''Red Clay'', Hubbard combines hard bop's glorious blues-out past with the soulful innovations of mainstream jazz in the 1960s, and reads them through the chunky groove innovations of '70s jazz fusion... This is a classic, hands down."<ref name="AM"/> Tom Moon, in ''1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die'', wrote that "''Red Clay'' is one of those records that mucks up the neat evolution narrative of jazz."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Moon |first1=Tom |title=1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die |date=2008 |publisher=Workman Publishing |isbn=978-0-7611-5385-6 |page=[https://archive.org/details/1000recordingsto00moon_0/page/372 372] |url=https://archive.org/details/1000recordingsto00moon_0 |url-access=registration |quote=Red Clay - freddie hubbard. |access-date=16 December 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

==Track listing== All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except where noted #"Red Clay" – 12:11 #"Delphia" – 7:23 #"Suite Sioux" – 8:38 #"The Intrepid Fox" – 10:45 #"Cold Turkey" (John Lennon) – 10:27 (recorded at original session; not released until CD issue) #"Red Clay" [Live] – 18:44 Bonus track on the 2001 and 2010 CD releases *''Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, January 27–29, 1970 except track 6 recorded live at the Southgate Palace in Los Angeles on July 19, 1971.''

==Personnel== *Freddie Hubbard – trumpet *Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone, flute (tracks 1–5) *Herbie Hancock – electric piano, Hammond organ (tracks 1–5) *Ron Carter – bass *Lenny White – drums (tracks 1–5)

===Track 6 additional personnel=== *Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone *Johnny "Hammond" Smith – electric piano *George Benson – guitar *Billy Cobham – drums *Airto Moreira – percussion

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Freddie Hubbard albums Category:1970 albums Category:Albums produced by Creed Taylor Category:CTI Records albums Category:Albums recorded at Van Gelder Studio