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Who played trumpet on Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island?

Herbie Hancock’s “Cantaloupe Island” was one of just four tracks on the 1964 LP “Empyrean Isles” (Hancock’s fourth solo record for Blue Note). His quartet at that time would today be considered a supergroup: Hancock on piano, Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Ron Carter at bass and a drummer known as “Anthony” Williams. in the same …

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