The newest package from the MPS Reforest the Legend series embraces the decade of 1970-1980, and covers a wide diversity of styles. From 1970, the The Hub of Hubbard presents trumpeter Freddie Hubbard with his quintet at an important crossroads in his career.

Hubbard, whose Atlantic recordings had straddled the boundary between hard bop and the avant-garde, sticks to bebop on this excellent recording. Performing in a quintet with tenor-saxophonist Eddie Daniels (no clarinet this time), pianist Roland Hanna, bassist Richard Davis and drummer Louis Hayes, Hubbard is in top form on four selections : "Without a Song", a ridiculously uptempo "Just One of Those Things", "Blues for Duane" and a ballad rendition of "The Things We Did Last Summer".

Once again sound engineers Christoph Stickel and Dirk Sommer have scrupulously remastered the original recordings. The resulting releases are high quality 180 gram vinyl pressings enclosed in record jackets containing the original artwork.