Sky Dive into the Red Clay

(Props to long-time fence-sitter Tim for the deadline and the recommendation)
Jazz trumpeting legend Freddie Hubbard has died at the age of 70 following a heart attack. Starting his career in the 1950s, Hubbard’s career earned critical praise early, then commercial success later. He was a member of the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey, performed with Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, participated in several prominent recordings of the 1960s jazz avante-garde with Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and John Coltrane and was regarded as one of the best trumpeters of the 1960s. Later, he incorporated more funk, and more pop, and found a larger audience, while earning the enmity of jazz critics. His career ended when he seriously injured his upper lip by playing too hard without warming up too often, and the lip became infected, one of the few non-porn careers that could be ended by a lip infection. He won a Grammy Award for the album “First Light” in 1972 and was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006.