Walking Down
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{{Infobox album
| name = Walking Down
| type = Album
| artist = Bennie Green
| cover = Walking Down.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1956
| recorded = June 29, 1956
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 40:59
| label = Prestige
| producer = Bob Weinstock
| chronology = Bennie Green
| prev_title = Bennie Green with Art Farmer
| prev_year = 1956
| next_title = Back on the Scene
| next_year = 1958
}}
Walking Down is an album by American trombonist Bennie Green, recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-7000-series/#prlp-7049 Prestige discography] accessed October 7, 2010{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xs_8j7s8xdoC&q=Bennie+Green+with+Art+Farmer+1956&pg=PA277|title=Bebop|first=Scott|last=Yanow|date=May 7, 2000|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=9780879306083|via=Google Books}}
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev2score = {{Rating|2.5|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=596}}
}}
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."Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r139775|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed October 7, 2010
Track listing
:All compositions by Bennie Green except as indicated
- "Walkin'" (credited as "Walking Down") (Richard Carpenter) - 12:00
- "The Things We Did Last Summer (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) - 12:19
- "East of the Little Big Horn" (Bennie Green) - 5:36
- "It's You or No One" (Cahn, Styne) - 5:44
- "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:20
:*Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey on June 29, 1956.
Personnel
References
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Category:Prestige Records albums
Category:Albums produced by Bob Weinstock