Reviewed in 2011
This very nice looking Blue Note LP has good sound and some straight ahead Blue Note jazz, the kind that Blue Note jazz fans love. The second track on side one, ’The Changing Scene’, is a wonderful ballad reminiscent of ’Round Midnight. It's the best material on the album in my opinion. More Freddie Hubbard
Rudy Van Gelder
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. Goin' Up is an excellent set of advanced hard bop...
