East Broadway Run Down

Infobox Album
Name = East Broadway Run Down
Type = studio
Artist = Sonny Rollins


Released = 1966
Recorded = May 9 1966
Genre = Jazz
Length = 38:37
Label = Impulse!
Producer = Bob Thiele
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|5|5 [http://wm02.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfrxqtgldae~T1 link]
Last album = "Alfie"
(1966)
This album = "East Broadway Run Down"
(1966)
Next album = "Next Album"
(1972)

"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.Wynn, Ron. (October 19 1998) [http://weeklywire.com/ww/10-19-98/nash_music-records.html Survivors of stature: Rollins, Rush roll on] "Weekly Wire". Accessed November 15 2007.] The album represents one of his more notable experiments with free jazz,cite book |last=Giddins |first=Gary |title=Visions of Jazz: The First Century |edition= New Edition. |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford UP |location=London |isbn=0195132416, p.418] according to "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz" illustrating "the furthest extent to which he incorporated noise elements into his playing". [ [http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_rollins_sonny.htm Sonny Rollins] ] . From "The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz". Hosted at PBS. Accessed November 15 2007.] It has been critically described as among his 60s "jewels". 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'." [Scaruffi, Piero. [http://www.scaruffi.com/jazz/rollins.html Sonny Rollins] . Scaruffi website. Accessed November 15 2007.]

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."

#"East Broadway Run Down" – 20:27
#"Blessing in Disguise" – 12:27
#"We Kiss in a Shadow" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 5:40

Personnel

Performance

*Jimmy Garrison – bass
*Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
*Elvin Jones – drums
*Sonny Rollins – sax (tenor)

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

References