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Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest

Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest
Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedSeptember 1, 1961
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length41:24
LabelPrestige
PRLP 7235
ProducerEsmond Edwards
Jimmy Forrest chronology
Out of the Forrest
(1961)
Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest
(1961)
Most Much!
(1961)

Sit Down and Relax with Jimmy Forrest is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Forrest recorded in 1961 and released on the Prestige label.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 3½ stars stating it "gives one a good example of Jimmy Forrest's playing and fortunately his solos are not as relaxed and laidback as the album's title might imply".[2]

Track listing

  1. "Tuxedo Junction" (Julian Dash, Buddy Feyne, Erskine Hawkins, William Johnson) - 6:30
  2. "Organ Grinder's Swing" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) - 5:25
  3. "Moonglow" (Eddie DeLange, Hudson, Mills) - 5:44
  4. "Tin Tin Deo" (Gil Fuller, Chano Pozo) - 7:29
  5. "Rocks in My Bed" (Duke Ellington) - 7:06
  6. "The Moon Was Yellow" (Fred E. Ahlert, Edgar Leslie) - 4:20
  7. "That's All" (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) - 4:54 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Production

References

  1. ^ Prestige Records discography accessed January 29, 2013
  2. ^ a b 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.