Down Through the Years
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{{Infobox album
| name = Down Through the Years
| type = Live album
| artist = The Clifford Jordan Big Band
| cover = Down Through the Years.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1992
| recorded = October 7, 1991
| venue = Condon's, NYC
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 59:05
| label = Milestone MCD-9197-2
| producer = Helen Keane
| chronology = Clifford Jordan
| prev_title = Play What You Feel
| prev_year = 1990
| next_title =
| next_year =
}}
Down Through the Years is a live album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan's Big Band that was recorded in New York City in 1991 and released on the Milestone label in 1992.[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Label_Milestone_9150.htm Jazzlists: Milestone Records 9000 series discography], accessed September 26, 2017.[http://www.jazzlists.com/SJ_Clifford_Jordan.htm Jazzlists: Clifford Jordan discography], accessed September 26, 2017.[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Leaders/JordanClifford-ldr.php Clifford Jordan leader entry], accessed September 26, 2017.[https://www.jazzdisco.org/clifford-jordan/catalog/#milestone-mcd-9197-2 Clifford Jordan catalog], accessed September 26, 2017.[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Labels/milestone.htm Jazzdiscography: Milestone Records Listing], accessed September 26, 2017.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|4|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=801}}
}}
The AllMusic review by Ken Dryden observed: "This 1991 big-band performance at Condon's in New York City also represents the final recording as a leader by Clifford Jordan, who died in 1993. In addition to Jordan's powerful and soulful tenor sax, trumpeters Dizzy Reece and Don Sickler, alto saxophonist Jerome Richardson, and pianist Ronnie Mathews are among the all-stars present on the date".{{AllMusic|last=Dryden|first=Ken|class=album |id=mw0000080161 |title= Clifford Jordan: Down Through the Years – Review |access-date=September 22, 2017}}
Track listing
{{Track listing
| collapsed =
| headline =
| total_length = 59:05
| title1 = I Waited for You
| writer1 = Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller
| length1 = 5:23
| title2 = Highest Mountain
| writer2 = Clifford Jordan
| length2 = 4:56
| title3 = Con Man
| writer3 = Dizzy Reece
| length3 = 9:04
| title4 = Down Through the Years
| writer4 = Jordan
| length4 = 5:56
| title5 = Don't Get Around Much Anymore
| writer5 = Ellington, Bob Russell
| length5 = 8:05
| title6 = Status Quo
| writer6 = John Neely
| length6 = 7:24
| title7 = Japanese Dream
| writer7 = Jordan
| length7 = 4:59
| title8 = Third Avenue
| writer8 = Jordan
| length8 = 7:07
| title9 = Charlie Parker's Last Supper
| writer9 = Jordan
| length9 = 6:50
}}
Personnel
- Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone, bandleader
- Stephen Furtado, Dean Pratt, Dizzy Reece, Don Sickler – trumpet
- Brad Shigeta – trombone
- Kiane Zawadi – euphonium
- Jerome Richardson, Sue Terry - alto saxophone
- Lou Orenstein, Willie Williams – tenor saxophone
- Charles Davis – baritone saxophone
- Ronnie Mathews – piano
- David Williams – bass
- Vernel Fournier – drums