The Eternal Triangle

1987 studio album by Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw

Studio album by

Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw

Released

1987

Recorded

June 11– 12, 1987

Genre

Jazz

Label

Blue Note

Producer

Michael Cuscuna

Freddie Hubbard chronology

Life Flight
(1987)

The Eternal Triangle
(1987)

Stardust
(1987)

Woody Shaw chronology

In My Own Sweet Way
(1987)

The Eternal Triangle
(1987)

Imagination
(1987)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Eternal Triangle is an album by trumpeters Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw recorded in June 1987 and released on the Blue Note label. It features performances by Hubbard, Shaw, Ray Drummond, Carl Allen, Mulgrew Miller and Kenny Garrett. The album followed the first Hubbard/Shaw collaboration Double Take (1985) and the two volumes were combined for the double CD release The Complete Freddie Hubbard and Woody Shaw Sessions (1995).

Track listing

"Down Under" (Hubbard) - 7:35
"The Eternal Triangle" (Sonny Stitt) - 7:49
"The Moontrane" (Shaw) - 6:30
"Calling Miss Khadija" (Lee Morgan) - 6:40
"Nostrand and Fulton" (Hubbard) - 6:12
"Tomorrow's Destiny" (Shaw) - 7:06
"São Paulo" (Kenny Dorham) - 8:13
"Reets and I" (Benny Harris) - 6:40

Personnel

References

^ Allmusic Review

Freddie Hubbard

Years given are for the recording(s), including the soundtrack albums, not first release.

Albums
as
leader
or
co-leader

Open Sesame (1960)
Goin' Up (1960)
Hub Cap (1961)
Minor Mishap/Dedication! (Hubbard/Duke Pearson, 1961)
Ready for Freddie (1961)
The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962)
Hub-Tones (1962)
Here to Stay (1962)
The Body & the Soul (1963)
Breaking Point! (1964)
Jam Gems: Live at the Left Bank (with Jimmy Heath, 1965)
The Night of the Cookers (1965)
Blue Spirits (1965–66)
Backlash (1966)
High Blues Pressure (1967)
A Soul Experiment (1968–69)
The Black Angel (1969)
The Hub of Hubbard (1970)
Red Clay (1970)
Straight Life (1970)
Sing Me a Song of Songmy (with İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970)
First Light (1971)
Polar AC (1971–73)
Sky Dive (1972)
Keep Your Soul Together (1973)
Freddie Hubbard/Stanley Turrentine in Concert Volume One (1973)
In Concert Volume Two (with Stanley Turrentine, 1974)
High Energy (1974)
Gleam (1975)
Liquid Love (1975)
Windjammer (1976)
Bundle of Joy (1977)
Super Blue (1978)
The Love Connection (1979)
Skagly (1979)
Live at the North Sea Jazz Festival, 1980 (1980)
The Alternate Blues (with Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie & Oscar Peterson, 1980)
The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (with Terry, Gillespie & Peterson, 1980)
Born to Be Blue (1981)
Keystone Bop: Sunday Night (1981)
Outpost (1981)
Rollin' (1981)
Splash (1981)
Above & Beyond (1982)
Back to Birdland (1982)
Face to Face (with Oscar Peterson, 1982)
Ride Like the Wind (1982)
The Rose Tattoo (1983)
Sweet Return (1983)
Double Take (with Woody Shaw, 1985)
Life Flight (1987)
The Eternal Triangle (with Woody Shaw, 1987)
Feel the Wind (with Art Blakey, 1988)
Times Are Changing (1989)
Topsy – Standard Book (1989)
Bolivia (1990–91)
At Jazz Jamboree Warszawa '91: A Tribute to Miles (1991)
Live at Fat Tuesday's (1991)
Blues for Miles (1992)
MMTC: Monk, Miles, Trane & Cannon (1994–95)
New Colors (2000)
On the Real Side (2007)

With Art
Blakey/The
Jazz
Messengers

Mosaic (1961)
Buhaina's Delight (1961)
Blues March (1961)
Three Blind Mice (1961)
Caravan (1962)
Ugetsu (1963)
Kyoto (1964)
Free for All (1964)
Golden Boy (1965)
Soul Finger (1965)

With
Dexter
Gordon

Doin' Allright (1961)
Clubhouse (1965)
Generation (1973)
The Other Side of Round Midnight (1986)

With
Herbie
Hancock

Takin' Off (1962)
Empyrean Isles (1964)
Maiden Voyage (1965)
Blow-Up (soundtrack album, 1966)
V.S.O.P. (1977)
V.S.O.P.: The Quintet (1977)
V.S.O.P. Tempest in the Colosseum (1977)
V.S.O.P. Live Under the Sky (1977)
Round Midnight (soundtrack album, 1985)

With
Bobby
Hutcherson

Dialogue (1965)
Components (1965)
Knucklebean (1977)
Highway One (1978)

With
Quincy
Jones

I Dig Dancers (1960)
The Quintessence (1962)
Golden Boy (1964)
I/We Had a Ball (1964–65)
Walking in Space (1969)
Gula Matari (1970)

With
Wayne
Shorter

Wayning Moments (1961)
Speak No Evil (1964)
The Soothsayer (1965)
The All Seeing Eye (1965)

With
others

The Soul of the City (Manny Albam, 1966)
The Other Side of Abbey Road (George Benson, 1969)
Out of This World (Walter Benton, 1960)
True Blue (Tina Brooks, 1960)
God Bless the Child (Kenny Burrell, 1971)
Cables' Vision (George Cables, 1979)
Droppin' Things (Betty Carter, 1990)
Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
Olé Coltrane (John Coltrane, 1961)
Africa/Brass (John Coltrane, 1961)
Ascension (John Coltrane, 1965)
Muses for Richard Davis (1969)
Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy, 1960)
Out to Lunch! (Eric Dolphy, 1964)
Undercurrent (Kenny Drew, 1960)
Leaving This Planet (Charles Earland, 1973)
Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
Interplay (Bill Evans, 1962)
Sonic Text (Joe Farrell, 1979)
Boss of the Soul-Stream Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1960)
Soul Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1961)
Cabin in the Sky (Curtis Fuller, 1962)
Take a Number from 1 to 10 (Benny Golson, 1961)
Pop + Jazz = Swing (Benny Golson, 1962)
Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (1959)
Sister Salvation (Slide Hampton, 1960)
Drum Suite (Slide Hampton, 1962)
The Quota (Jimmy Heath, 1961)
Triple Threat (Jimmy Heath, 1962)
Big Band (Joe Henderson, 1996)
Pax (Andrew Hill, 1965)
Compulsion (Andrew Hill, 1965)
Sunflower (Milt Jackson, 1972)
Goodbye (Milt Jackson, 1973)
52nd Street (Billy Joel, 1978)
Reg Strikes Back (Elton John, 1988)
J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1960)
Echoes of an Era (Chaka Khan, 1982)
Essence (John Lewis, 1960–62)
Water Sign (Jeff Lorber, 1979)
Doin' the Thang! (Ronnie Mathews, 1963)
Bluesnik (Jackie McLean, 1961)
MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Modern Jazz Quartet, 1994)
Fingerpickin' (Wes Montgomery, 1958)
Roll Call (Hank Mobley, 1960)
The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Oliver Nelson, 1961)
Sweet Honey Bee (Duke Pearson, 1966)
The Right Touch (Duke Pearson, 1967)
Contours (Sam Rivers, 1965)
Drums Unlimited (Max Roach, 1965)
East Broadway Run Down (Sonny Rollins, 1966)
Numbers (Rufus, 1978)
Once a Thief and Other Themes (Lalo Schifrin, 1965)
Giant Box (Don Sebesky, 1973)
Sugar (Stanley Turrentine, 1970)
Together (McCoy Tyner, 1978)
Quartets 4 X 4 (McCoy Tyner, 1980)
Soundscapes (Cedar Walton, 1980)
Uhuru Afrika (Randy Weston, 1960)
Blue Moses (Randy Weston, 1972)

v t e Woody Shaw
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	In the Beginning (1965) Blackstone Legacy (1970) Song of Songs (1972) The Moontrane (1974) San Francisco Express – Getting It Together (1975) Love Dance (1975) Little Red's Fantasy (1976) Woody Plays Woody (1976–77) The Woody Shaw Concert Ensemble at the Berliner Jazztage (1976) Rosewood (1977) The Iron Men (with Anthony Braxton, 1977) Stepping Stones: Live at the Village Vanguard (1978) Woody III (1978–79) For Sure! (1979) United (1981) Lotus Flower (1982) Master of the Art (1982) Night Music (1982) Setting Standards (1983) The Time Is Right (1983) Double Take (and Freddie Hubbard, 1985) Woody Shaw with the Tone Jansa Quartet (1985) Dr. Chi (1986) Bemsha Swing (1986) Solid (1986) Imagination (1987) In My Own Sweet Way (1987) The Eternal Triangle (with Freddie Hubbard, 1987)
With others	Home! (Gary Bartz, 1969) Coral Keys (Walter Bishop Jr., 1971) Child's Dance (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1972) Buhaina (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) Anthenagin (Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, 1973) The Free Slave (Roy Brooks, 1970) Duet in Detroit (Roy Brooks, 1983) The Almoravid (Joe Chambers, 1971) Tones for Joan's Bones (Chick Corea, 1966) The Complete "Is" Sessions (Chick Corea, 1969) Brilliant Circles (Stanley Cowell, 1969) Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963) Tex Book Tenor/Back from the Gig (Booker Ervin, 1968) Ichi-Ban (Louis Hayes and Junior Cook, 1976) The Real Thing (Louis Hayes, 1977) If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (Joe Henderson, 1970) Joe Henderson Quintet at the Lighthouse (1970) Grass Roots (Andrew Hill, 1968) Lift Every Voice (Andrew Hill, 1969–70) Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969) Bobby Hutcherson Live at Montreux (1973) Cirrus (Bobby Hutcherson, 1974) Bridge into the New Age (Azar Lawrence, 1974) 'Bout Soul (Jackie McLean, 1967) Demon's Dance (Jackie McLean, 1967) Reach Out! (Hank Mobley, 1968) Thinking of Home (Hank Mobley, 1970) Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) (Pharoah Sanders, 1970) The Cape Verdean Blues (Horace Silver, 1965) The Jody Grind (Horace Silver, 1966) Natural Soul (Buddy Terry, 1967) Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972) Expansions (McCoy Tyner, 1968) The Git Go – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mal Waldron, 1986) The Seagulls of Kristiansund (Mal Waldron, 1986) Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967) Unity (Larry Young, 1965) Zawinul (Joe Zawinul, 1970)
Box sets	Woody Shaw: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection (Columbia, 1978–81 [2011]) Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions (Mosaic, 1965–87 [2013])