Freddie Hubbard News: Jazz Musician Freddie Hubbard Dies At Age 70

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Grammy winning jazz musician Freddie Hubbard died Monday (December 29) in a suburb of Los Angeles, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70 years old.

According to the Associated Press, the jazz trumpeter died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, after suffering a heart attack just before Thanksgiving.

As a musician, Hubbard contributed to hundreds of recordings in a career dating to 1958, the year he arrived in New York from his hometown Indianapolis. In Indianapolis, he studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and with the Indianapolis Symphony.

Over the years, he collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John...