Sweet Return
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{{Infobox album
| name = Sweet Return
| type = Album
| artist = Freddie Hubbard
| cover = Sweet Return.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1983
| recorded = June 13–14, 1983
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length =
| label = Atlantic
| producer = İlhan Mimaroğlu
| prev_title = Back to Birdland
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = The Rose Tattoo
| next_year = 1983
}}
Sweet Return is a studio album by jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, recorded in June 1983 and released on the Atlantic Records label.
Reception
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev4 = Windsor Star
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev3Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 106
}}
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=733}}
}}
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "one of Freddie Hubbard's best albums since the early '70's".Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r141113|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic Review], accessed 19 June 2009. 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."Berg, Chuck. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DKoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i-gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6762,1421273&dq "Freddie's 'Sweet Return' Eschews Past Funk Fads"]. Lawrence Journal-World. January 8, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.Hadekel, Peter. [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DKoyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=i-gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6762,1421273&dq "Hubbard Returns to His Jazz Roots"]. Montreal Gazette. March 1, 1984. Retrieved 2013-09-19.
Track listing
- "Sweet Return" (Joan Cartwright) - 9:24
- "Misty" (Johnny Burke, Erroll Garner) - 5:58
- "Whistling Away the Dark" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 5:06
- "Calypso Fred" (Hubbard) 4:13
- "Heidi-B" (Joanne Brackeen) - 12:54
- "The Night has a Thousand Eyes" (Buddy Bernier, Jerry Brainin) - 10:21
Personnel
- Freddie Hubbard - trumpet
- Joanne Brackeen - piano
- Lew Tabackin - tenor saxophone, flute
- Eddie Gómez - bass
- Roy Haynes - drums