Good Old Broadway Explained

Good Old Broadway
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Coleman Hawkins
Cover:	Good Old Broadway.jpg
Released:	1962
Recorded:	January 2, 1962
Studio:	Van Gelder, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	35:03
Label:	Moodsville MV 23
Producer:	Esmond Edwards
Chronology:	Coleman Hawkins
Prev Title:	Things Ain't What They Used to Be
Prev Year:	1961
Next Title:	The Jazz Version of No Strings
Next Year:	1962

Good Old Broadway is an album by saxophonist Coleman Hawkins which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Moodsville label.^[1]

Reception

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.^[2]

Track listing

1. "I Talk to the Trees" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 4:23
2. "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 4:40
3. "Wanting You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Sigmund Romberg) - 2:26
4. "Strange Music" (George Forrest, Robert Wright, Edvard Grieg) - 6:17
5. "The Man That Got Away" (Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin) - 4:08
6. "Get Out of Town" (Cole Porter) - 4:14
7. "Here I'll Stay" (Alan Jay Lerner, Kurt Weill) - 4:08
8. "A Fellow Needs a Girl" (Hammerstein, Richard Rodgers) - 4:47

Personnel

• Coleman Hawkins - tenor saxophone
• Tommy Flanagan - piano
• Major Holley - bass
• Eddie Locke - drums

Notes and References

1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-moodsville-series/#mvlp-23 Prestige Records discography
2. http://www.allmusic.com/album/good-old-broadway-mw0000030733 Allmusic Review