Windjammer (album)
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Windjammer is an album recorded in 1976 by jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 trumpeter Freddie Hubbard
Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

. It was released on the Columbia
Columbia Records
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 label and features performances by Hubbard, Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...

, Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker
Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

, Bob James
Bob James (musician)
Robert McElhiney James is a jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer.-Biography:During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date...

, George Cables
George Cables
George Andrew Cables is a jazz pianist, born November 14, 1944 in New York City.He has played with Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, and others.His own recordings include the 1980 Cables Vision with Freddie Hubbard among others....

 Steve Khan
Steve Khan
Steve Khan is an American jazz guitarist.Born in Los Angeles, California, Khan is known for his work with artists such as Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Michael Franks, Hubert Laws, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, James Brown, Maynard Ferguson, and Weather Report...

 and Eric Gale
Eric Gale
Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gale began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as...

.

Track listing

  1. "Dream Weaver" -
  2. "Feelings" -
  3. "Rock Me Arms" -
  4. "Touch Me Baby" -
  5. "Neo Terra (New Land)" -
  6. "Windjammer" -
All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated
  • Recorded in New York City, 1976

Personnel

  • Freddie Hubbard
    Freddie Hubbard
    Frederick Dewayne "Freddie" Hubbard was an American jazz trumpeter. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post bop styles from the early 1960s and on...

     - trumpet
    Trumpet
    The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...

  • Jon Faddis
    Jon Faddis
    Jon Faddis is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator renowned for both his highly virtuosic command of the instrument and for his expertise in the field of music education...

    : trumpet
  • Michael Brecker
    Michael Brecker
    Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...

    : tenor saxophone
  • Bob James
    Bob James (musician)
    Robert McElhiney James is a jazz keyboardist, arranger and producer.-Biography:During the 1970s, Bob James played a major role in establishing the smooth jazz genre. "Angela", the instrumental theme from the sitcom Taxi, is probably Bob James' most well-known work to date...

    : piano, clavinet, synthesizer
  • George Cables
    George Cables
    George Andrew Cables is a jazz pianist, born November 14, 1944 in New York City.He has played with Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Art Pepper, and others.His own recordings include the 1980 Cables Vision with Freddie Hubbard among others....

    : electric piano, clavinet
  • Hubert Laws
    Hubert Laws
    Hubert Laws is an American flutist and saxophonist with a 40+ year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist...

    : flute
  • Steve Khan
    Steve Khan
    Steve Khan is an American jazz guitarist.Born in Los Angeles, California, Khan is known for his work with artists such as Steely Dan, Billy Joel, Michael Franks, Hubert Laws, Billy Cobham, Jack DeJohnette, James Brown, Maynard Ferguson, and Weather Report...

    : guitar
  • Richie Resnicoff: guitar
  • David Spinozza
    David Spinozza
    David Spinozza is an American musician , who worked with former Beatles Paul McCartney and John Lennon during the 1970s, and had a long collaboration with singer-songwriter James Taylor, producing Taylor's album Walking Man....

    : guitar
  • Eric Gale
    Eric Gale
    Eric J. Gale was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Gale began playing guitar at the age of 12. Although he majored in chemistry at Niagara University, Gale was determined to pursue a musical career, and began contributing to accompaniments for such stars as...

    : guitar
  • Jerry Friedman: guitar


  • Gary King: bass
  • Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd
    Steve Gadd is an American session and studio drummer, notable for his work with popular musicians from a wide range of genres.-Biography:...

    : drums
  • Andy Newmark
    Andy Newmark
    Andrew "Andy" Newmark is an American musician, best known as a popular session drummer, and for playing with the funk band Sly & the Family Stone from 1972 to 1973....

    : drums
  • Chris Parker: drums
  • Ralph MacDonald
    Ralph MacDonald
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    : percussion
  • Ray Mantilla
    Ray Mantilla
    Raymond Mantilla is an American jazz drummer. He has played as a session musician and toured with some of the most significant jazz musicians of his time...

    : percussion
  • Marvin Stamm
    Marvin Stamm
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    : trumpet
  • Bernie Glow
    Bernie Glow
    Bernie Glow was a trumpet player who specialized in jazz and commercial lead trumpet from the 1940s to 1970s....

    : trumpet
  • Lew Soloff
    Lew Soloff
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    : trumpet
  • Wayne Andre
    Wayne Andre
    Wayne Andre was an American jazz trombonist, best known for his work as a session musician.Andre's father was a saxophonist, and he took private music lessons from age 15. He played with Charlie Spivak in the early 1950s before spending some time in the U.S. Air Force...

    : trombone
  • Dave Taylor: trombone
  • Alan Raph: trombone
  • George Marge: oboe, alto saxophone, english horn
  • Wally Kane: bassoon
  • Phil Bodner: alto saxophone

  • Max Ellen: violin
  • David Nadien: violin
  • Emanuel "Manny" Green: violin
  • Harry Cykman: violin
  • Charles Libove: violin
  • Harry Lookofsky
    Harry Lookofsky
    Harry Lookofsky was an American jazz violinist. He is also the father of keyboardist-songwriter Michael Brown, a member of The Left Banke.-History:...

    : violin
  • Max Pollikoff
    Max Pollikoff
    Max Pollikoff"" was a classical music violinist who created the Music in Our Time Series at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. The Series commissioned and premiered hundreds of new works. In 1923, when Pollikoff was 19, he made his first appearance in New York, playing at the Aeolian Hall...

    : violin
  • Paul Gershman: violin
  • Matthew Raimondi: violin
  • Richard Sortomme: violin
  • Alfred Brown: viola
  • Emanuel Vardi
    Emanuel Vardi
    Emanuel Vardi an Israeli-American violist, was considered to have been one of the great viola players of the 20th century.- Early life :...

    : viola
  • Charles McCracken: cello
  • Jesse Levy: cello

  • Patti Austin
    Patti Austin
    -Life and career:Austin was born in Harlem, New York. She made her debut at the Apollo Theater at age four and had a contract with RCA Records when she was only five. Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have proclaimed themselves as her godparents....

    : vocals
  • Vivian Cherry: vocals
  • Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie
    Gwen Guthrie was an American singer-songwriter, who also sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin, Billy Joel, Stevie Wonder, and Madonna, among others, and who wrote songs made famous by Ben E. King, and Roberta Flack....

    : vocals
  • Zack Sanders: vocals
  • Frank Floyd: vocals
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