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Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest

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Released
  
1961

Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest (1961)
  
Most Much! (1961)

Release date
  
1961

Label
  
AVID Entertainment

Length
  
41:24

Artist
  
Jimmy Forrest

Producer
  
Esmond Edwards

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
September 1, 1961 Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Jimmy Forrest albums
  
Soul Street, Most Much!, Out of the Forrest, Forrest Fire, Live at the Barrel

Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars stating it "gives one a good example of Jimmy Forrest's playing and fortunately his solos are not as relaxed and laidback as the album's title might imply".

Track listing

  1. "Tuxedo Junction" (Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson) - 6:30
  2. "Organ Grinder's Swing" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 5:25
  3. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Hudson, Mills) - 5:44
  4. "Tin Tin Deo" (Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) - 7:29
  5. "Rocks in My Bed" (Duke Ellington) - 7:06
  6. "The Moon Was Yellow" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) - 4:20
  7. "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) - 4:54 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

  • Jimmy Forrest - tenor saxophone
  • Hugh Lawson - piano
  • Calvin Newborn - guitar
  • Tommy Potter - bass
  • Clarence Johnston - drums

    • Production

  • Esmond Edwards - supervisor
  • Rudy Van Gelder - engineer

    • Songs

    1Tuxedo Junction (Remastered)6:36
    2Organ Grinder's Swing (Remastered)5:29
    3Moonglow (Remastered)5:48

    References

    Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest Wikipedia
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