Sweet Return

Performer: Freddie Hubbard
Artist: Lew Tabackin; Joanne Brackeen; Roy Haynes; Eddie Gomez
Engineer: Lew Hahn
Producer: Ilhan Mimaroglu
Distributor: Gotham Distributing Corp.

Notes: Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn); Lew Tabackin (tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute); Joanne Brackeen (piano); Eddie Gomez (bass); Roy Haynes (drums); Hector Manuel Andrade (percussion). Recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, New York. Originally released on Atlantic Records (80108). Personnel: Freddie Hubbard (trumpet, flugelhorn, horns); Lew Tabackin (flute, alto flute, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Joanne Brackeen (piano); Roy Haynes (drums); Hector Andrade (percussion). Liner Note Author: Todd Barkan. Recording information: Atlantic Studios, New York, NY (06/13/1983/06/14/1983). One of Freddie Hubbard's best albums since the early '70's, this quintet date finds him joined by quite an all-star lineup: Lew Tabackin on tenor and flute, pianist Joanne Brackeen (who has many fine solos throughout the album), bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Roy Haynes. Highpoints include Hubbard's tender version of "Misty" (at the time he had a particularly lovely tone on fluegelhorn), Brackeen's "Heidi-B" and the quintet's rendition of the standard "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes." ~ Scott Yanow

Freddie Hubbard has always been a trumpet player of great facility, suppleness, and polish. Following his breakthrough with the Jazz Messengers in the late '50s, his burnished tone became a focal point of innumerable Blue Note albums of the '60s, both as leader and sideman. After a foray into fusion in the '70s, he returned to the hard bop of his early career.

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