- Source: High Energy (Freddie Hubbard album)
High Energy is a studio album recorded in 1974 by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was first studio album released on the Columbia label and features performances by Hubbard, Joe Sample, George Cables, Junior Cook, Ernie Watts, Pete Christlieb, and Ian Underwood.
Reception
AllMusic's Scott Yanow commented One of Freddie Hubbard's few decent efforts during his very commercial period with Columbia, this LP found his quintet (with tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook and keyboardist George Cables) joined by a small orchestra and a string section on a set of potentially dismal material."
Track listing
"Camel Rise" (George Cables) - 6:21
"Black Maybe" (Wonder) - 4:55
"Baraka Sasa" (Hubbard) - 10:26
"Crisis" (Hubbard) - 5:45
"Ebony Moonbeams" (Cables) - 6:57
"Too High" (Wonder) - 6:35
Personnel
Freddie Hubbard: trumpet, flugelhorn
Junior Cook: tenor saxophone (6), flute
Dick "Slyde" Hyde, George Bohanon: trombone
Pete Christlieb: tenor saxophone (6), bass clarinet (5)
Ernie Watts: bass flute (1), flute (6), soprano saxophone (5)
Dean Parks: guitar
George Cables: electric piano
Joe Sample: clavinet, organ
Ian Underwood: synthesizer
Kent Brinkley: bass
Harvey Mason (2, 4), Ralph Penland (1, 3, 5–6): drums
Victor Feldman, King Errison, Carmelo Garcia: percussion
Dale Oehler: arrangements, conducting