Sweet Return

Freddie Hubbard | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00005NG3Y
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #251,872 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hubbard At His Best, October 28, 2001

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Kurt Harding "bon vivant" (Boerne TX) - See all my reviews
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I have been waiting for the re-issue of this CD for years, and for years I have haunted the stores and scoured the internet in what had been a futile search. Finally the moment I knew had to come arrived.
I own a number of Freddie Hubbard albums, but I consider Sweet Return to be Hubbard at his best. I first bought it on cassette back in 1983 when it was originally issued, immediately liked it and wore out the tape as the years went by.
Hubbard is ably backed on Sweet Return by jazz giants Lew Tabackin on tenor sax and flute, Joanne Brackeen on piano, and Eddie Gomez on bass. The music ranges from frenetic on Calypso Fred, to smooth and romantic on the jazz classic Misty. My favorites are the title cut, which is a magnificent showcase of Hubbard's virtuosity, Whistling Away In The Dark, The Night Has A Thousand Eyes, and the Brackeen composition, Heidi-B, which showcases her stunning piano play, provides a vehicle for Tabackin to show off on his flute and gives Hubbard a launching pad from which to take us soaring to the musical stratosphere.
Since this CD arrived, I have played it over and over again, enjoying it just as much as I did when I first heard it nearly twenty years ago. This is one CD that belongs in every serious jazz lover's collection.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hubbard at the peak of his powers, August 11, 2008

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Ditto to everything Kurt said. I, too, had been anxiously waiting for this date to be reissued on disc. This is an absolutely stellar all-star band, and they're so tight that one gets the impression they'd been playing together forever. The communication between Hubbard & Joanne Brackeen (a truly great jazz pianist), in particular, is remarkable. Everyone on the date is a stud, and all (Lew Tabackin on tenor & flute; Eddie Gomez on bass; Roy Haynes on drums) are given opportunities to strut their stuff.

If I had to limit the Hubbard material in my collection to only one recording, this would be it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars absolutely, October 8, 2008

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Yes, this is the quality stuff. Swinging, tasty, tight. Interplay between this "all-star" pickup band is remarkable. Hubbard and Tabackin blowing over each other is a delight, and Tabackin's tone -- which sometimes sounds like a duck-call on other recordings -- is reined in and tasteful throughout. I keep coming back to this album over the years. One of Hubbard's best of the 80's period, alongside the fabulous Griffith Park Collection.