"Straight Life" is an instrumental jazz composition by Freddie Hubbard, who is credited as its sole writer. Its original recording appears on the album of the same name, released by CTI Records in January 1971 and produced by Creed Taylor. The session took place on 16 November 1970 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The title track runs about seventeen and a half minutes and opens the record. The album's personnel includes Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Herbie Hancock on electric piano, George Benson on guitar, Ron Carter on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. The album has been described as post-bop, soul jazz, jazz fusion and jazz-funk. Later versions include recordings by the Boillat Thérace Quintet (1974), the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet (2008) and Alexander Claffy (2022).
