Off the Wall (Budd Johnson album)

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Off the Wall
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Studio album by
Budd Johnson with Joe Newman
Released1965
RecordedDecember 3, 1964
StudioRCA Recording Studios, NYC
Genre Jazz
Length38:01
Label Argo
LP/LPS-748
Producer Esmond Edwards
Budd Johnson chronology
Ya! Ya!
(1963)		Off the Wall
(1965)		 Ya! Ya!
(1970)

Off the Wall is an album by saxophonist Budd Johnson with trumpeter Joe Newman which was recorded in late 1964 and released on the Argo label. [1] [2]

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Track listing

  1. "Off the Wall" (Budd Johnson) – 5:05
  2. "The Folks Who Live on the Hill" (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II) – 5:17
  3. "Love Is the Sweetest Thing" (Ray Noble) – 7:24
  4. "Strange Music" (Robert Wright, George Forrest) – 3:57
  5. "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" (Alexander Borodin, Wright, Forrest) – 6:05
  6. "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 5:04
  7. "Playin' My Hunch" (Johnson) – 5:09

Personnel

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