Word: hubbarded
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...somebody else found the promo record. If I had to put my finger on it, it was the record that first gave the show away. Some ingenious record company executive had pasted a sticker to the cellophane wrapping, a sticker graced by Stanley Clarke's evaluation of Diana Hubbard's music. There is only one problem. In his glowing tribute, Clarke failed to note that he too played on this album...
...could forgive the obvious bullshit involved if the presence of Clarke--and his Return to Forever colleague, Chick Corea--had somehow managed to make this album worth listening to. But they are no more than sidemen on LifeTimes. Diana Hubbard, on her first album, runs the show, playing piano, (Corea isrelegated to the synthesizer on the one cut he graces) and writing all the music. But unfortunately Hubbard lacks emotion, technique; in fact, she lacks any creative vision beyond a vague desire to "contribute to a renaissance in romanticism...
...Hubbard's music does not, as a result, offend the listener. It's not execrable. It is just extraordinarily dull. As a pianist/composer, Hubbard sounds like Bruckner rewritten for the dentist's office. Which is too bad, because Hubbard really can be quite a nice person, and she will go out of her way to try very hard to make you believe what she writes is in some way worthy of serious artistic attention...
...lost cause, however. Hubbard claims she wants to write music that "is felt but not heard." She tries to buck the trend in modern jazz and revive the purely romantic side of jazz. In her music, Hubbard states, she is "not trying to be any structured thing. In all of us we have the dreamer...
...Brock; 114. John Matlack; 115. George Foster; 116. Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx; 117. Chuck Klein, 170; 118. Stan Musial, Ernie Banks; 119. Al Kaline, Carl Yastrzemski, Lou Brock; 120. 96, Ninety-six, South Carolina; 121. Bob Gibson; 122. Dave DeBusschere; 123. Dick Groat; 124. Tim Stoddard; 125. Cal Hubbard; 126. Bill Haller; 127. Bill Valentine. Al Salerno: 128. Larry Barnett; 129. Emmett Ashford; 130. Bill Klem; 131. Joe Cronin, $250,000; 132. Gene Conley, Pumps i.e., Green, fly to Israel...they were found drunk at the airport; 133. Theodore S. Williams; 134. Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio...the award was presented...