Chords for Freddie Hubbard - Pinnacle; Live and Unreleased at Keystone Korner

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_ _ [Bbm] _ _ _ [Bb] A lot of Freddie's best playing is unrecorded.
A lot of times we'd be on the road
[F] and things would just [Eb] collide in a way
where unpredictably [F] we'd reach some sort of pinnacle
[Eb] _ [A] that [C] was just absolutely astounding,
[Bb] and we would just all look at each other and think,
wouldn't it be great if someone was recording this?
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[A] _ _ [E] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Dm] Freddie [C] was, you know,
[E] he was a great musician,
a brilliant musician in every way.
He was a genius of melodic invention.
He was just a complete musician.
I don't [Gm] think that anyone before or even [Am] _ after
will ever play the trumpet the way Freddie Everett played.
Freddie was kind of a musical [C] intuitive and [D] mystic
in a certain way, and he really channeled something
from somewhere [A] else, I think.
[E] Man, Freddie was like, you know,
I should make [G] a movie about him, you know,
because he was one of the most complex people.
He was a very demanding employer.
[A] Every night you were forced to play
at the absolute peak [F] of what you could do.
He used to always say, well, you guys [E] got your [Eb] bachelors,
that's cool, you're [Dm] getting your masters with me.
[E] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _
Keystone Corner was the center of jazz in San Francisco.
There was something to me [Eb] magical about the [Bb] Keystone.
_ Todd Barkin [Bbm] ran it, and Todd was, um, [Ebm] how should I put it?
He was a character, [Gbm] central [Ebm] casting couldn't have done any better.
[Ab] He was the jazz club owner.
[A] He was very [Eb] relaxed.
He would let whatever the musicians wanted, you know.
[Bb] Todd even, he would introduce [Ebm] the band individually
[Db] and bring them up.
[D] It was a jazz club, [C] you know,
and people were there to hear the music for sure.
I mean, it wasn't just like some clubs you go in
and, you know, people are talking, talking, talking,
and the music is in a backdrop, you know.
No, they were there to hear the music at Keystone.
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_ _ _ [N] Freddy was like 2 people, just 2 distinct personalities really.
One of those personalities was the most generous,
gentle, and giving kind of mentor type guys [Eb] musically.
He expected you to [F] play at the peak of what you could do,
and if you [F] didn't, he could [Ebm] really turn into quite a monster.
There were certain times that you just wanted to become invisible.
He [Db] could get mean, but talking to [F] him,
he was a very sensitive, intelligent _ person
who at the bottom of it was a nice person.
Even [Ab] though Freddy's been called arrogant,
and [Bb] sometimes it applied,
there [E] was this other side of Freddy
that it was an [Fm] almost insecure _ side.
[Ab] He felt like he had to prove himself.
That's why he ended up being _ [Fm] so great, _
[Gb] _ because he was never [Bbm] satisfied,
[Gm] because he also didn't feel like people liked him as a musician.
He would say that often.
There was another thing that was puzzling to me.
I don't think they [C] really like me.
I don't think they [A] like _ [G] me.
I said, come [F] on, Hub, man, [B] how could they not like that?
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[Eb] _ _ [Gb] _ [F] One [Bb] song that is contained in this record
[B] that I don't believe [C] I've ever seen [Bm]
Freddy [Gm] having recorded before
is [D] Giant Steps.
That's [Eb] a song that he used to call from time to [G] time
[Bb] as a [D] test of sorts for himself in some [G] situation or another,
and [Ab] kind of, okay, [D] let's show everybody
that I [A] can play on trumpet
what [Eb] _ most people [D] can't play on sax.
There was a [E] certain amount of bravado
and sort of the need to [D] make it clear that he was the _ _ [B] cat.
The [C] collection of songs that we did on Pinnacle
is [D] a really great [C] choice of tunes.
The thing I like about it is that it's true [Ab] improvisation.
Well, you [D] know, [G] this band that Freddy put together
[Eb] _ was [Dbm] actually a real good mix of guys,
[Ab] and we had developed a [Eb] blend that's not easy to attain,
[C] but it comes from just playing together.
That year I believe we played [Db] Greastone
maybe 2 [G] or 3 times.
[Eb] Freddy was definitely at the top of his game,
but the really strong point is [D] the uniform sound [Bb] that the band had.
There's some beautiful [D] playing
and [N] some _ examples, I think, of the level where technique
[E] and impressive technical ability meet [Eb] head-to-head
[C] with lyricism and [A] poetry,
and [Db] he's playing at that level on this [Ab] stuff. _
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