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

Sweet Return
Studio album by Freddie Hubbard
Released	1983
Recorded	June 13 & 14 1983
Genre	Jazz
Label	Atlantic
Producer	İlhan Mimaroğlu
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]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "One of Freddie Hubbard's best albums since the early '70's".[7] 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" (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

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

References