East Broadway Run Down

East Broadway Run Down is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins recorded in 1966 and released in 1967 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]

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
Allmusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

Initially released on Impulse! Records, the album has been reissued many times on CD and LP by Impulse!, MCA, Universal International and GRP.

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
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 170. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1234. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. Wynn, Ron. (October 19, 1998) Survivors of stature: Rollins, Rush roll on Weekly Wire. Accessed November 15, 2007.
  6. Giddins, Gary (2000). Visions of Jazz: The First Century (New ed.). London: Oxford UP. ISBN 0-19-513241-6., p.418
  7. Sonny Rollins. From The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Hosted at PBS. Accessed November 15, 2007.
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