Double Take (Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw album)


Double Take is an album by trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw recorded in November 1985 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Hubbard, Cecil McBee, Carl Allen, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Garrett. The album was Hubbard's first for Blue Note since recording The Night of the Cookers twenty years previously.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Hubbard still gets the edge. Although Shaw tended to play more harmonically sophisticated lines and is remarkably inventive, they are both trumpet masters". The album was followed by a second Hubbard/Shaw collaboration The Eternal Triangle in 1987 and the two volumes were combined for the double CD release The Complete Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw Sessions.
The album debuted on the Billboard Top Jazz Album chart on July 5, 1986 and would spend 12 weeks on the chart, eventually peaking at #19.

Track listing

  1. "Sandu" - 4:28
  2. "Boperation" - 4:56
  3. "Lament for Booker" - 6:22
  4. "Hub-Tones" - 6:25
  5. "Desert Moonlight" - 8:10
  6. "Just a Ballad for Woody" - 5:30
  7. "Lotus Blossom" - 8:15

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