Lenox Avenue Breakdown

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Lenox Avenue Breakdown
Lenox Avenue Breakdown cover
Studio album by Arthur Blythe
Released 1979
Recorded Mediasound Studios, NYC, 1978
Genre Jazz
Length 39 min 58 sec
Label Columbia
Producer Bob Thiele
Professional reviews
Arthur Blythe chronology
Bush Baby
(1978)		 Lenox Avenue Breakdown
(1979)		 In the Tradition
(1980)

Lenox Avenue Breakdown is an album by jazz alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe. Columbia Records released the album in 1979, and Koch Jazz re-issued the title in 1998. The album reached the N° 35 position on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart in 1979.[1]

The Penguin Guide to Jazz included Lenox Avenue Breakdown in its "Core Collection," and assigned the album its "crown" accolade along with a four-star rating (of a possible four stars).[2] Penguin editors Richard Cook and Brian Morton called the album "one of the lost masterpieces of modern jazz," owing to its long period of unavailability before the 1998 CD release.[2] Cook and Morton noted that "[Bob] Stewart's long tuba solo on the title-piece is one of the few genuinely important tuba statements in jazz, a nimble sermon that promises storms and sunshine."[2]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All compositions by Arthur Blythe.

Original LP side one
  1. "Down San Diego Way" – 7:44
  2. "Lenox Avenue Breakdown" – 13:11
Original LP side two
  1. "Slidin' Through" – 9:33
  2. "Odessa" – 9:30

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
United States 1979 Columbia LP JC 35638
United States 1998 Koch CD KOC-CD-7871

[edit] References

  1. ^ Chart & Awards at Allmusic
  2. ^ a b c Cook, Richard; Brian Morton [1992] (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th ed., The Penguin Guide to Jazz (in English), New York: Penguin, p. 139. ISBN 0-141-02327-9.