East Broadway Run Down cover

East Broadway Run Down

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In the early to mid ’60s, Sonny Rollins got pretty free, most notably on 1962’s Our Man In Jazz (with Don Cherry) and this album. On the 20-minute title track, he and trumpeter Freddie Hubbard play a splattery fire-alarm melody, after which everyone — both horns, bassist Jimmy Garrison, and drummer Elvin Jones — gets a solo. Indeed, you could say Jones never stops soloing. Eventually, Rollins detaches his mouthpiece, the better to emit piercing squeals over the gigantic beat. The two more conventional pieces that follow are energetic, if anticlimactic.

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