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

Walking Down
Studio album by
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)

Reception edit

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 edit

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 edit

References edit

  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.