In this clip from 1962, a 24 year old Freddie Hubbard plays trumpet alongside Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. An exceptionally talented virtuoso performer, Hubbard’s rich full tone is never lost, even when he plays dazzlingly fast passages. As one of the greatest of hard bop trumpeters, he contrives to create impassioned blues lines without losing the contemporary context within which he plays.