Walking Down

Walking Down
Studio album by
Bennie Green
Released1956
RecordedJune 29, 1956
GenreJazz
Length40:59
LabelPrestige
ProducerBob Weinstock
Bennie Green chronology
Bennie Green with Art Farmer
(1956) 		Walking Down
(1956) 		Back on the Scene
(1958)

Walking Down is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green, recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[4]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and stated: "The solos are colorful if occasionally stumbling, and the arrangements of the four standards and Green's "East of the Little Big Horn" have their share of surprises."[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Bennie Green except as indicated
  1. "Walkin'" (credited as "Walking Down") (Richard Carpenter) - 12:00
  2. "The Things We Did Last Summer (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 12:19
  3. "East of the Little Big Horn" (Bennie Green) - 5:36
  4. "It's You or No One" (Cahn, Styne) - 5:44
  5. "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:20
  • Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on June 29, 1956.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Prestige discography accessed October 7, 2010
  2. ^ Yanow, Scott (May 7, 2000). Bebop. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306083 – via Google Books.
  3. ^ a b Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 7, 2010
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 596. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.