For his second recording as a leader, trumpeter
Freddie Hubbard
(22 years old at the time) performs two compositions apiece by
Kenny Dorham
and
Hank Mobley
, the obscure "I Wished I Knew," and his own "Blues for Brenda."
Hubbard
(featured in a quintet with tenor saxophonist
Mobley
, pianist
McCoy Tyner
, bassist
Paul Chambers
, and drummer
Philly Joe Jones
) takes quite a few outstanding solos, playing lyrically on the ballads and building his own sound out of the
Clifford Brown
/
Lee Morgan
tradition. ~ Scott Yanow