Sweet Return
Studio album by
Freddie Hubbard
Released1983
RecordedJune 13–14, 1983
GenreJazz
LabelAtlantic
Producerİlhan Mimaroğlu
Freddie Hubbard chronology
Back to Birdland
(1983) 		Sweet Return
(1983) 		The Rose Tattoo
(1983)

Sweet Return is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded in June 1983 and released on the Atlantic Records label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
Windsor StarB[2]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "one of Freddie Hubbard's best albums since the early '70's".[1] 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."[5][6]

Track listing

  1. "Sweet Return" (Joan 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

References

  1. ^ a b Yanow, S. AllMusic Review, accessed 19 June 2009.
  2. ^ Stevens, Peter. "Jazz". Windsor Star. March 24, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 106. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 733. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Berg, Chuck. "Freddie's 'Sweet Return' Eschews Past Funk Fads". Lawrence Journal-World. January 8, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
  6. ^ Hadekel, Peter. "Hubbard Returns to His Jazz Roots". Montreal Gazette. March 1, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
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