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East Broadway Run Down

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Released
  
1966

Length
  
38:37

Artist
  
Sonny Rollins

Producer
  
Bob Thiele

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
May 9, 1966

East Broadway Run Down (1966)
  
Next Album (1972)

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Impulse! Records

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Similar
  
Sonny Rollins albums, Jazz albums

East Broadway Run Down is a 1966 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six-year hiatus. The album represents one of his more notable experiments with free jazz, according to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz illustrating "the furthest extent to which he incorporated noise elements into his playing". It has been critically described as among his 60s "jewels".

Contents

Initially released on Impulse! Records, the album has been reissued many times on CD and LP by Impulse!, MCA, Universal International and GRP.

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all compositions by Sonny Rollins.

  1. "East Broadway Run Down" – 20:27
  2. "Blessing in Disguise" – 12:27
  3. "We Kiss in a Shadow" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:40

Performance

  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
  • Freddie Hubbard – trumpet (track 1 only)
  • Jimmy Garrison – bass
  • Elvin Jones – drums

    • Production

  • Bob Thiele – producer, photography
  • Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
  • Nat Hentoff – liner notes
  • Charles Stewart – photography, cover photo
  • Robert Flynn – artwork, cover design
  • Joe Lebow – liner design
  • Mel Cheren – artwork, cover painting
  • Vartan – art direction
  • Viceroy – artwork
  • DZN – repackaging design

    • Songs

    1East Broadway Run Down20:25
    2Blessing in Disguise12:23
    3We Kiss in a Shadow5:37

    References

    East Broadway Run Down Wikipedia
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