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Released
  
1956

Length
  
40:59

Release date
  
1956

Label
  
Prestige Records

Recorded
  
June 29, 1956

Artist
  
Bennie Green

Producer
  
Bob Weinstock

Genre
  
Jazz

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Walking Down is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated "The solos are colorful if occasionally stumbling, and the arrangements of the four standards and Green's "East of the Little Big Horn" have their share of surprises".

Track listing

All compositions by Bennie Green except as indicated
  1. "Walkin'" (credited as "Walking Down") (Richard Carpenter) - 12:00
  2. "The Things We Did Last Summer (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 12:19
  3. "East of the Little Big Horn" (Bennie Green) - 5:36
  4. "It's You or No One" (Cahn, Styne) - 5:44
  5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:20
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on June 29, 1956.
  • Personnel

  • Bennie Green - trombone
  • Eric Dixon - tenor saxophone
  • Lloyd Mayers - piano
  • Sonny Wellesley - bass
  • Bill English - drums
  • Songs

    1Walkin' (Down)12:02
    2The Things We Did Last Summer12:19
    3East of the Little Big Horn5:37

    References

    Walking Down Wikipedia