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Broadway Express (album)

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Released
  
1966

Artist
  
J. J. Johnson

Label
  
RCA/Legacy

Producer
  
Brad McCuen

Release date
  
1966

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
December 13, 16 & 17, 1965 RCA Victor Studio A, New York City

Broadway Express (1965)
  
The Total J.J. Johnson (1966)

Similar
  
JJ's Broadway, Dial J J 5, Proof Positive, The Yokohama Concert, J J in Person!

Broadway Express is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger J. J. Johnson and Orchestra featuring jazz version of Broadway musical songs conducted and arranged by Mundell Lowe and recorded in late 1965 for the RCA Victor label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

  1. "Come Back to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner]]) - 2:09
  2. "Night Song" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) - 3:00
  3. "Once in a Lifetime" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) - 2:13
  4. "More Than One Way" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - 2:02
  5. "I Believe In You" (Frank Loesser) - 2:13
  6. "Goodbye, Old Girl" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:40
  7. "The Joker" (Newley, Bricusse) - 2:40
  8. "Sew the Buttons On" (John Jennings) - 2:06
  9. "Sunrise, Sunset" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) - 2:25
  10. "Why Did I Choose You?" (Herbert Martin, Michael Leonard) - 2:04
  11. "Xanadu" (Gérard Calvi, Harold Rome) - 1:43
  12. "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:07

Personnel

  • J. J. Johnson - trombone
  • Burt Collins, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal - trumpet
  • Wayne Andre, Dick Hixon - trombone
  • Tony Studd - bass trombone
  • James Buffington, Bob Northern - French horn
  • Danny Bank, Phil Bodner, Jerome Richardson, Frank Wess - reeds
  • Everett Barksdale, Kenny Burrell, Carl Lynch - guitar
  • Hank Jones - piano
  • Richard Davis - bass
  • Grady Tate - drums
  • Warrren Smith, Phil Kraus - percussion
  • Mundell Lowe - arranger, conductor

    • Songs

    1Come Back to Me (from the Musical "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever")2:10
    2Night Song (from the Broadway Musical "Golden Boy")2:58
    3Once in a Lifetime (from the David Merrick-Bernard Delfont Production "Stop the World-I Want to Get Off")2:15

    References

    Broadway Express (album) Wikipedia
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