Open Sesame (Freddie Hubbard album)

Open Sesame
Studio album by
Released1960 (1960)
RecordedJune 19, 1960
StudioVan Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S.
GenreJazz
Length38:36
53:27 (CD reissue)
LabelBlue Note
ProducerAlfred Lion
Freddie Hubbard chronology
Open Sesame
(1960)
Goin' Up
(1960)

Open Sesame is the debut album by then 22 years old jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded on June 19, 1960, by Rudy Van Gelder at his studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, and released on the Blue Note label in 1960 in mono as BLP 4040 and in stereo as BST 84040. It features performances by Hubbard, Tina Brooks, McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones and Clifford Jarvis. In 1988, Capitol Records issued it on compact disc with Michael Cuscuna as reissue producer and in 2001, they released a version remastered by Rudy Van Gelder.