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Released
  
1983

Length
  
35:10

Back to Birdland (1983)
  
Sweet Return (1983)

Release date
  
1983

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
August 1982

Producer
  
Ralph Jungheim

Artist
  
Freddie Hubbard

Label
  
Realtime Records

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Similar
  
Freddie Hubbard albums, Jazz albums

Back to Birdland is an album by jazz musician Freddie Hubbard recorded in August 1982 and released on the Real Time label. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "Hubbard's first worthwhile studio recording (with the exception of Super Blue) since the mid-'70s".

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Freddie Hubbard except as indicated
  1. "Shaw 'Nuff" (Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) - 5:19
  2. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) - 6:05
  3. "Lover Man" (Jimmy Davis, Ram Ramirez, James Sherman) - 5:39
  4. "For B.P." - 6:58
  5. "Stella by Starlight" (Ned Washington, Victor Young) - 5:18
  6. "Byrdlike" - 5:42

Personnel

  • Freddie Hubbard: trumpet
  • George Cables: piano
  • Richie Cole: alto saxophone
  • Ashley Alexander: trombone
  • Med Flory: alto saxophone (track 6)
  • Andy Simpkins: bass
  • John Dentz: drums

    • Songs

    1Shaw 'Nuff5:12
    2Star Eyes5:50
    3Lover Man5:31

    References

    Back to Birdland Wikipedia
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