STRAIGHT LIFE (FREDDIE HUBBARD ALBUM)

Straight Life
Straight Life
Studio album by Freddie Hubbard
Released	January 1971
Recorded	November 16, 1970
Studio	Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre	Post-bop, soul jazz, jazz fusion, jazz-funk
Length	36:24
Label	CTI; CTI 6007
Producer	Creed Taylor
Freddie Hubbard chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]

Straight Life is a soul/funk influenced jazz album recorded in 1970 by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. It was recorded on 16 November 1970 and released between the albums Red Clay (1970) and First Light (1971). This is also Hubbard's eighteenth overall album.

Track listing

"Straight Life" (Freddie Hubbard) - 17:30
"Mr. Clean" ( Weldon Irvine) - 13:37
" Here's That Rainy Day" ( Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) - 5:17

Personnel

References

^ Billboard Jan 23, 1971
^ Yanow, Scott (2011). "Straight Life - Freddie Hubbard | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
^ Cook, Richard and Brian Moreton. "Review: Straight Life". Penguin Guide to Jazz: 732. September 2008.
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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[1] Billboard Jan 23, 1971

[2] Yanow, Scott (2011). "Straight Life - Freddie Hubbard | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 17 July 2011.

[Cook-3] Cook, Richard and Brian Moreton. "Review: Straight Life". Penguin Guide to Jazz: 732. September 2008.

[RSJRG-4] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

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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)

v t e Herbie Hancock
Discography ( As a sideman or guest artist)
Studio albums	Takin' Off My Point of View Inventions & Dimensions Empyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child The Prisoner Fat Albert Rotunda Mwandishi Crossings Sextant Head Hunters Dedication Thrust Man-Child Secrets Third Plane Herbie Hancock Trio Sunlight Directstep The Piano Feets, Don't Fail Me Now Monster Mr. Hands Magic Windows Herbie Hancock Trio Lite Me Up Quartet Future Shock Sound-System Village Life Perfect Machine A Tribute to Miles Dis Is da Drum The New Standard 1+1 Gershwin's World Future 2 Future Possibilities River: The Joni Letters The Imagine Project
Live albums	Hear, O Israel - A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz Flood V.S.O.P. The Quintet (V.S.O.P.) Tempest in the Colosseum (V.S.O.P.) An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert CoreaHancock V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (V.S.O.P.) Jazz Africa Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall Live: Detroit/Chicago
with Bob Brookmeyer	Bob Brookmeyer and Friends
with Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams	Out of This World (Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet) Chant Royal Flush Free Form A New Perspective
with Miles Davis	Seven Steps to Heaven My Funny Valentine Four & More E.S.P. Miles Smiles Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky Water Babies Filles de Kilimanjaro In a Silent Way Jack Johnson On the Corner Big Fun Get Up with It
with Jack DeJohnette and Pat Metheny	Parallel Realities
with Joe Farrell	Moon Germs Penny Arcade Upon This Rock Night Dancing
with Freddie Hubbard	Hub-Tones Straight Life Red Clay
with Joe Zawinul	Zawinul
Compilations	Treasure Chest (Herbie Hancock album) The Best of Herbie Hancock Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock The Essential Herbie Hancock
Compositions	" Watermelon Man" " Cantaloupe Island" " Maiden Voyage" " Chameleon" " Rockit"
Soundtracks	Blow-Up Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert The Spook Who Sat by the Door Death Wish A Soldier's Story Round Midnight Action Jackson

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)

v t e Herbie Hancock
Discography ( As a sideman or guest artist)
Studio albums	Takin' Off My Point of View Inventions & Dimensions Empyrean Isles Maiden Voyage Speak Like a Child The Prisoner Fat Albert Rotunda Mwandishi Crossings Sextant Head Hunters Dedication Thrust Man-Child Secrets Third Plane Herbie Hancock Trio Sunlight Directstep The Piano Feets, Don't Fail Me Now Monster Mr. Hands Magic Windows Herbie Hancock Trio Lite Me Up Quartet Future Shock Sound-System Village Life Perfect Machine A Tribute to Miles Dis Is da Drum The New Standard 1+1 Gershwin's World Future 2 Future Possibilities River: The Joni Letters The Imagine Project
Live albums	Hear, O Israel - A Prayer Ceremony in Jazz Flood V.S.O.P. The Quintet (V.S.O.P.) Tempest in the Colosseum (V.S.O.P.) An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert CoreaHancock V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (V.S.O.P.) Jazz Africa Directions in Music: Live at Massey Hall Live: Detroit/Chicago
with Bob Brookmeyer	Bob Brookmeyer and Friends
with Donald Byrd and Pepper Adams	Out of This World (Pepper Adams Donald Byrd Quintet) Chant Royal Flush Free Form A New Perspective
with Miles Davis	Seven Steps to Heaven My Funny Valentine Four & More E.S.P. Miles Smiles Sorcerer Nefertiti Miles in the Sky Water Babies Filles de Kilimanjaro In a Silent Way Jack Johnson On the Corner Big Fun Get Up with It
with Jack DeJohnette and Pat Metheny	Parallel Realities
with Joe Farrell	Moon Germs Penny Arcade Upon This Rock Night Dancing
with Freddie Hubbard	Hub-Tones Straight Life Red Clay
with Joe Zawinul	Zawinul
Compilations	Treasure Chest (Herbie Hancock album) The Best of Herbie Hancock Then and Now: The Definitive Herbie Hancock The Essential Herbie Hancock
Compositions	" Watermelon Man" " Cantaloupe Island" " Maiden Voyage" " Chameleon" " Rockit"
Soundtracks	Blow-Up Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert The Spook Who Sat by the Door Death Wish A Soldier's Story Round Midnight Action Jackson

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