East Broadway Run Down
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| Studio album by Sonny Rollins | |||||
| Released | 1966 | ||||
| Recorded | May 9, 1966 | ||||
| Genre | Jazz | ||||
| Length | 38:37 | ||||
| Label | Impulse! | ||||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | ||||
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East Broadway Run Down is a 1966 album by legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six year hiatus.[1] The album represents one of his more notable experiments with free jazz,[2] according to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz illustrating "the furthest extent to which he incorporated noise elements into his playing".[3] It has been critically described as among his 60s "jewels".[1] Music journalist Piero Scaruffi praised the album for the dissonant titular song, "a bold thematic improvisation on the riff of Lionel Hampton's 'Hey Baba Rebop'."[4]
Initially released on Impulse! Records, the album has been reissued many times on CD and LP by Impulse!, MCA, Universal International and GRP.
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[edit] Track listing
Except where otherwise noted, all compositions by Sonny Rollins.
- "East Broadway Run Down" – 20:27
- "Blessing in Disguise" – 12:27
- "We Kiss in a Shadow" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:40
[edit] Personnel
[edit] Performance
[edit] Production
- Mel Cheren – artwork, cover painting
- DZN – repackaging design
- Robert Flynn – artwork, cover design
- Nat Hentoff – liner notes
- Joe Lebow – liner design
- Charles Stewart – photography, cover photo
- Bob Thiele – producer, photography
- Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
- Vartan – art direction
- Viceroy – artwork
[edit] References
- ^ a b Wynn, Ron. (October 19, 1998) Survivors of stature: Rollins, Rush roll on Weekly Wire. Accessed November 15, 2007.
- ^ Giddins, Gary (2000). Visions of Jazz: The First Century, New Edition., London: Oxford UP. ISBN 0195132416., p.418
- ^ Sonny Rollins]. From The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Hosted at PBS. Accessed November 15, 2007.
- ^ Scaruffi, Piero. Sonny Rollins. Scaruffi website. Accessed November 15, 2007.
