Hello Fellow Music Lovers:
"Little Sunflower" is a 1967 composition by the late, great American, Jazz trumpeter, Freddie Hubbard. He was known primarily for playing in the bebop, hard bop and post-bop styles from the early 1960s and on. His unmistakable and influential tone contributed to new perspectives for modern jazz and bebop.
Hubbard has been described as "the most brilliant trumpeter of a generation of musicians who stand with one foot in 'tonal' jazz and the other in the atonal camp". Although he never fully embraced the so-called, "free Jazz" of the 1960s, he appeared on two of its landmark albums: Alto saxophonist, Ornette Coleman's, "Free Jazz" and tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist, John Coltrane's, "Ascension", as well as on, tenor saxophonist, Sonny Rollins', 1966 "New Thing" track, "East Broadway Run Down", with drummer, Elvin Jones and "double" bassist, Jimmy Garrison.
I decided to add a vocal to the piece, as well as guitar, flute and some other little instrumental tidbits.
Thanks for the listen, friends.
Griff