Jazz Great, Grammy Winner Freddie Hubbard Dies at 70

Freddie Hubbard was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 7, 1938. He played with some of the all-time greats of music, among them Art Blakey, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, John Coltrane, Wayne shorter, Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy , J. J. Johnson and Quincy Jones.

Speaking of meeting John Coltrane to the jazz magazine Down Beat in 1995, Freddie Hubbard said, "I met Trane at a jam session at Count Basie's in Harlem in 1958. "He said, `Why don't you come over and let's try and practice a little bit together.' I almost went crazy. I mean, here is a 20-year-old kid practicing with John Coltrane. He helped me out a lot, and we worked several jobs together."

In an interview earlier this year, trumpeter Chris Botti spoke of Hubbard, saying, "The sound he gets on just one note. I know he does all the flashy stuff and the high stuff and it's all great but ... he'd play `Body and Soul' on the flugelhorn and it was just that much better again than everyone around him."

Freddie Hubbard won a Grammy in 1972 for best jazz performance by a group for the album "First Light."

Hubbard was bestowed with the National Endowment for the Arts' Jazz Masters Award in 2006.

Watch of video of Hubbard playing with Art Blakey and the All-Star Jazz Messengers playing "I Remember Clifford," a tribute to one of his influences, trumpeter Clifford Brown: