Hyde Park After Dark

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Hyde Park After Dark
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Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedSeptember 5, 1981
StudioP.S. Studios, Chicago.
Genre Jazz
Length45:22
Label Bee Hive Records BH 7014
Producer Jim Neumann, Susan Neumann
Clifford Jordan chronology
Hello, Hank Jones
(1978)
Hyde Park After Dark
(1981)
Repetition
(1984)
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Hyde Park After Dark is an album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded in Chicago in 1981 together with Victor Sproles on bass, Wilbur Campbell on drums, Norman Simmons on piano, Cy Touff on bass trumpet, and Von Freeman on saxophone. [2] [3] The album is a tribute to the Chicago jazz scene and a reunion of important players from the 1950s. [4]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hyde Park After Dark"Clifford Jordan7:14
2."You're Blasé"Ord Hamilton, Bruce Siever6:19
3."Lotus Blossom" Kenny Dorham 6:11
4."Sad Sam" Norman Simmons 6:51
5."I Waited for You"Walter Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie 5:31
6."I'm Glad There Is You" Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Madeira3:28
7."2° East, 3° West" John Lewis 6:48
Total length:45:22

Personnel

Band

Production

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References

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