Freddie Hubbard - Sweet Return (1983) [vinyl]

I haven't seen a CD reissue of this outside of Japan?

Review by Richard Palmer, Jazz Journal, July 1984:

The title is apt. It commemorates not only Freddie's return to Atlantic after an absence of 12 years, but also a reunion with the kind of material and approach that originally established him as a major jazz talent.
Just a glance at the personnel tells you most of what you need to know about the music on the date, which is predictably wonderful, and also richly varied in its challenges. Gomez is simply awesome — at home in every context, his vast sound propelling everything and everyone, and his solos are models of imagination and structure. Brackeen contributes the date's most ambitious composition, Heidi-B, and I find her rollicking work on the joyous Calypso particularly noteworthy. Tabackin is equally convincing on both tenor and flute, and it is especially nice to hear his talents spread so richly in a smaller ensemble. And as for Haynes ... he just seems to get better and better, a master of controlled and sympathetic aggression, and still one of the greatest practitioners of brushes. Freddie himself is in absolute top form here. Whether it be his happy bubbling on Calypso, his darkly romantic reading of Misty, or his richly creative excursions on both tracks on the second side, this date proves with every note that he is indisputably one of jazz's true heavyweights. By no means miss this one.

1. Sweet Return
2. Misty
3. Whistling Away The Dark
4. Calypso Fred
5. Heidi-B
6. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Freddie Hubbard (t); Lew Tabackin (ts/fl); Joanne Brackeen (p); Eddie Gomez (b}; Roy Haynes (d); Hector Manuel Andrade (perc).
NYC, June 13 & 14, 1983.