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"On this session, [John Gilmore] didn't play like Wayne Shorter or Joe Henderson, but he played the type of sound that I heard for the album. When he played that solo on Caravan, I said, 'Man, what is this?'... It was kind of a Coltrane sound, and I liked that because he didn't play like anybody else. When I wrote those arrangements, I didn't really know what they were going to sound like. But I had an idea that by getting Art [Davis] and Louis [Hayes] and Tommy [Flanagan] and John [Gilmore] that they would, some kind of way, gel. See, if you get certain combination of guys, they can get a sound... I was going through some changes then, man. I was getting ready to break up with my wife, I had a son that I had to leave. I've listened to that one a lot over the years. I did some of my best playing on that."



--Freddie Hubbard on The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard, his first leadership date for Impulse in 1962, from Ashley Kahn's The House That Trane Built (2006).

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