East Broadway Run Down Explained

East Broadway Run Down
Type:studio
Artist:Sonny Rollins
Cover:East_Broadway_Run_Down.jpg
Released:January 1967[1]
Recorded:May 9, 1966
Studio:Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre:Post-bop, free jazz
Length:38:37
Label:Impulse!
Producer:Bob Thiele
Prev Title:Alfie
Prev Year:1966
Next Title:Next Album
Next Year:1972

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.[2] The album represents one of his more notable experiments with free jazz,[3] according to The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz illustrating "the furthest extent to which he incorporated noise elements into his playing".[4] It has been critically described as among his 60s "jewels".[2]

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Billboard. January 28, 1967.
  2. Wynn, Ron. (October 19, 1998) Survivors of stature: Rollins, Rush roll on Weekly Wire. Accessed November 15, 2007.
  3. Book: Giddins, Gary . Visions of Jazz: The First Century . New . 2000 . Oxford UP . London . 0-19-513241-6 . registration ., p.418
  4. https://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_rollins_sonny.htm Sonny Rollins