Cherkasy Jazz Quintet. Homage to Freddie Hubbard.

"The album is devoted to work by Freddie Hubbard – maybe, the most skillful and multi-style trumpeter in the history of jazz. Having come to New York at the end of the 1950s, the twenty-year old Hubbard joined the competition with thousands of trumpeters of the jazz capital, having decided to try his abilities almost in all style directions existing at that time. He started at "Blue Note" as the leader of hard-bop teams and as a participant of the legendary project Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, he was a permanent sideman on all first solo discs by the young Herbie Hancock, participated in free jazz experiments by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane.

Having passed to "Atlantic", he recorded soul-jazz, fashionable in the 1960s. At the beginning of the 1970s he became the star of modal jazz-rock. Later, already for "Columbia", he produced a series of wide-scale recordings with large orchestras.

For two decades, Hubbard, according to data of a questionnaire poll by "DownBeat" magazine competed for the title of the leading jazz trumpeter with Miles Davis.

Freddy Hubbard died on December, 29 2008 at the age of seventy. Musicians of Cherkasy Jazz Quintet release their album as a tribute to this great jazzman."

Arthur Ohanesyan (information from the CD's polygraphy)

Sergey Krasheninnikov - piano, leader
Alexander Schnayder - bass
Valeri Kirichenko - trumpet
Nikolai Evpak - tenor-sax
Alexander Cherkashyn - drums