Sweet Return

Sweet Return
Studio album by Freddie Hubbard
Released	1983
Recorded	June 13 & 14 1983
Genre	Jazz
Label	Atlantic
Freddie Hubbard chronology
Back to Birdland (1983) Sweet Return (1983) The Rose Tattoo (1983)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Lawrence Journal-World	Favorable[2]
The Montreal Gazette	Favorable[3]
The Windsor Star	B [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[5]

Sweet Return is an album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard recorded in June 1983 and released on the Atlantic Records label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "One of Freddie Hubbard's best albums since the early '70's".^[6] Similarly, writing shortly after the album's release, both Chuck Berg of The Lawrence Journal-World and Peter Hadekel of The Montreal Gazette commended Hubbard's return to form, with Berg citing the trumpeter's "desire to play 'real' music sans the fads, frills and fancy stuff of pseudo-funk."^[2]

Track listing

1. "Sweet Return" (Cartwright) - 9:24
2. "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 5:58
3. "Whistling Away the Dark" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 5:06
4. "Calypso Fred" (Hubbard) 4:13
5. "Heidi-B" (Joanne Brackeen) - 12:54
6. "The Night has a Thousand Eyes" (Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin) - 10:21

Personnel

• Freddie Hubbard: trumpet
• Joanne Brackeen: piano
• Lew Tabackin: tenor saxophone
• Eddie Gómez: bass
• Roy Haynes: drums

References

1. Allmusic Review
2. Berg, Chuck. "Freddie's 'Sweet Return' Eschews Past Funk Fads". The Lawrence Journal-World. January 8, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
3. Hadekel, Peter. "Hubbard Returns to His Jazz Roots". The Montreal Gazette. March 1, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
4. Stevens, Peter. "Jazz". The Windsor Star. March 24, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
5. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
6. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed 19 June 2009.