East Broadway Run Down

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East Broadway Run Down
Studio album by
ReleasedJanuary 1967[1]
RecordedMay 9, 1966
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenrePost-bop, free jazz
Length38:37
LabelImpulse!
ProducerBob Thiele
Sonny Rollins chronology
Alfie
(1966)
East Broadway Run Down
(1967)
Next Album
(1972)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
[4]

East Broadway Run Down is an album by

Impulse Records, his last album before industry pressures led him to take a six-year hiatus.[5] The album represents one of his more notable experiments with free jazz,[6] according to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz illustrating "the furthest extent to which he incorporated noise elements into his playing".[7] It has been critically described as among his 60s "jewels".[5]

Initially released on

.

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

Personnel

Performance

Production

References

  1. ^ "Billboard". January 28, 1967.
  2. ^ Allmusic review
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  5. ^ a b Wynn, Ron. (October 19, 1998) Survivors of stature: Rollins, Rush roll on Weekly Wire. Accessed November 15, 2007.
  6. ., p.418
  7. PBS
    . Accessed November 15, 2007.