Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard album)

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1960 studio album by Freddie Hubbard

Open Sesame

Studio album by Freddie Hubbard

Released

1960 (1960)

Recorded

June 19, 1960

Studio

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.

Genre

Jazz

Length

38:36
53:27 (CD reissue)

Freddie Hubbard chronology

Open Sesame
(1960)

Goin' Up
(1960)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Penguin Guide to Jazz

Open Sesame is the debut album by then 22 years old trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded on June 19, 1960 by Rudy Van Gelder at his studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and released on the Blue Note label in 1960 in mono as BLP 4040 and in stereo as BST 84040. It features performances by Hubbard, Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis. In 1988, Capitol Records issued it on compact disc with Michael Cuscuna as reissue producer and in 2001, they released a version remastered by Rudy Van Gelder.

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." AllMusic gave it a four and a half star rating.

Track listing

"Open Sesame" (Tina Brooks) - 7:11
"But Beautiful" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:26
"Gypsy Blue" (Brooks) - 6:28
"All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) - 5:36
"One Mint Julep" (Rudy Toombs) - 6:04
"Hub's Nub" (Hubbard) - 6:51
"Open Sesame" (Brooks) - 7:16 Bonus track on CD
"Gypsy Blue" (Brooks) - 7:35 Bonus track on CD

Personnel

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

References

Open Sesame at AllMusic
Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) . The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. pp. 731–732. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

v t e Freddie Hubbard
Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Open Sesame (1960) Goin' Up (1960) Hub Cap (1961) Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961) Ready for Freddie (1961) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Hub-Tones (1962) Here to Stay (1962) The Body & the Soul (1963) Breaking Point! (1964) Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965) The Night of the Cookers (1965) Blue Spirits (1965–66) Backlash (1966) High Blues Pressure (1967) A Soul Experiment (1968–69) The Black Angel (1969) The Hub of Hubbard (1970) Red Clay (1970) Straight Life (1970) Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970) First Light (1971) Polar AC (1971–73) Sky Dive (1972) Keep Your Soul Together (1973) Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973) In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974) High Energy (1974) Gleam (1975) Liquid Love (1975) Windjammer (1976) Bundle of Joy (1977) Super Blue (1978) The Love Connection (1979) Skagly (1979) Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980) The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980) Born to Be Blue (1981) Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981) Outpost (1981) Rollin' (1981) Splash (1981) Above & Beyond (1982) Back to Birdland (1982) Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982) Ride Like the Wind (1982) The Rose Tattoo (1983) Sweet Return (1983) Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985) Life Flight (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987) Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988) Times Are Changing (1989) Topsy – Standard Book (1989) Bolivia (1990–91) At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991) Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991) Blues for Miles (1992) MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95) New Colors (2000) On the Real Side (2007)
With Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	Mosaic (1961) Buhaina's Delight (1961) Blues March (1961) Three Blind Mice (1961) Caravan (1962) Ugetsu (1963) Kyoto (1964) Free for All (1964) Golden Boy (1965) Soul Finger (1965)
With Dexter Gordon	Doin' Allright (1961) Clubhouse (1965) Generation (1973) The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)
With Herbie Hancock	Takin' Off (1962) Empyrean Isles (1964) Maiden Voyage (1965) Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966) V.S.O.P. (1977) V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977) V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977) V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977) Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)
With Bobby Hutcherson	Dialogue (1965) Components (1965) Knucklebean (1977) Highway One (1978)
With Quincy Jones	I Dig Dancers (1960) The Quintessence (1962) Golden Boy (1964) I/We Had a Ball (1964–65) Walking in Space (1969) Gula Matari (1970)
With Wayne Shorter	Wayning Moments (1961) Speak No Evil (1964) The Soothsayer (1965) The All Seeing Eye (1965)
With others	The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966) The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969) Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960) True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960) God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971) Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979) Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990) Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960) Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961) Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961) Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965) Muses for Richard Davis (1969) Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960) Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964) Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960) Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973) Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967) Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962) Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979) Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960) Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961) Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962) Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961) Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962) Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959) Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960) Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962) The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961) Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962) Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996) Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965) Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965) Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972) Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973) 52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978) Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988) J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960) Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982) Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62) Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979) Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963) Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961) MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994) Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958) Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960) The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961) Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966) The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967) Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965) Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965) East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966) Numbers (Rufus, 1978) Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965) Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973) Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970) Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978) Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980) Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980) Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960) Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Minor Move (1958) Street Singer (with Jackie McLean, 1960) True Blue (1960) Back to the Tracks (1960) The Waiting Game (1961)
Sideman with others	Swingin' (Kenny Burrell, 1958–59) Blue Lights, Volumes 1 & 2 (Kenny Burrell, 1958) On View at the Five Spot Cafe (Kenny Burrell, 1959) Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard, 1960) Music from the Connection (Howard McGhee, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1959) Shades of Redd (Freddie Redd, 1960) Redd's Blues (Freddie Redd, 1961) Cool Blues (Jimmy Smith, 1958) House Party (Jimmy Smith, 1958) The Sermon! (Jimmy Smith, 1958)

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