Soul Street (album)

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Soul Street
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Studio album by
Jimmy Forrest
Released1962
RecordedSeptember 9, 1960, September 1 and October 19, 1961 and June 1, 1962
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Jazz
Length49:09
Label New Jazz
NJLP 8293
Producer Esmond Edwards
Jimmy Forrest chronology
Most Much!
(1961)		Soul Street
(1962)		 Black Forrest
(1972)

Soul Street is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Forrest compiled from four different sessions between 1960 and 1962 (with the CD edition adding a bonus track from 1958) and released on New Jazz Some tracks appear as CD bonus tracks on other CDs but this is the only album on which the Big Band tracks appear. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "A popular yet underrated tenor saxophonist, Jimmy Forrest is featured in several different settings". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Jimmy Forrest except where noted.

  1. "Soul Street" – 9:06
  2. "I Love You" (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) – 5:13
  3. "Sonny Boy" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:19
  4. "Soft Summer Breeze" (Eddie Heywood, Judy Spencer) – 4:07
  5. "Experiment in Terror" (Henry Mancini) – 2:25
  6. "Just A-Sittin' and A-Rockin'" (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:56
  7. "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 4:51
  8. "I Wanna Blow, Blow, Blow" (Jerry Valentine) – 5:53 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ New Jazz Records discography accessed January 29, 2013
  2. 1 2 Yanow, S. AllMusic Review, January 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 500. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
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