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Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard album)

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Released
  
1960 (1960)

Open Sesame(1960)
  
Goin' Up(1960)

Release date
  
1960

Label
  
Blue Note Records

Recorded
  
June 19, 1960

Artist
  
Freddie Hubbard

Producer
  
Alfred Lion

Genres
  
Jazz, Hard bop

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Studio
  
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Length
  
38:3653:27 (CD reissue)

Similar
  
Freddie Hubbard albums, Hard bop albums, Other albums

Open Sesame is the debut album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard released on the Blue Note label in 1960 as BST 84040. It features performances by Hubbard, Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis. It was remastered in 2001 by Rudy Van Gelder.

Contents

The Penguin Guide to Jazz has included Open Sesame as part of a selected "Core Collection," and has summarized the album as "a great Blue Note set."

Track listing

  1. "Open Sesame" (Brooks) - 7:11
  2. "But Beautiful" (Burke, Van Heusen) - 6:26
  3. "Gypsy Blue" (Brooks) - 6:28
  4. "All or Nothing at All" (Altman, Lawrence) - 5:36
  5. "One Mint Julep" (Toombs) - 6:04
  6. "Hub's Nub" (Hubbard) - 6:51
  7. "Open Sesame" [alternate take] (Brooks) - 7:16 Bonus track on CD
  8. "Gypsy Blue" [alternate take] (Brooks) - 7:35 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

  • Freddie Hubbard: trumpet
  • Tina Brooks: tenor saxophone
  • McCoy Tyner: piano
  • Sam Jones: bass
  • Clifford Jarvis: drums

    • Songs

    1Open Sesame7:13
    2But Beautiful6:27
    3Gypsy Blue6:30

    References

    Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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