Broadway Express is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger J.J. Johnson and Orchestra featuring jazz version of Broadway musical songs conducted and arranged by Mundell Lowe and recorded in late 1965 for the RCA Victor label.Discogs album entry, accessed July 14, 2016
Reception
AllMusic awarded the album 3 stars.
Track listing "Come Back to Me" (Burton Lane, Alan Jay Lerner) - 2:09 "Night Song" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) - 3:00 "Once in a Lifetime" (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) - 2:13 "More Than One Way" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn) - 2:02 "I Believe In You" (Frank Loesser) - 2:13 "Goodbye, Old Girl" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:40 "The Joker" (Newley, Bricusse) - 2:40 "Sew the Buttons On" (John Jennings) - 2:06 "Sunrise, Sunset" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) - 2:25 "Why Did I Choose You?" (Herbert Martin, Michael Leonard) - 2:04 "Xanadu" (Gérard Calvi, Harold Rome) - 1:43 "Something's Coming" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:07
Personnel J. J. Johnson - trombone Burt Collins, Joe Newman, Ernie Royal - trumpet Wayne Andre, Dick Hixon - trombone Tony Studd - bass trombone James Buffington, Bob Northern - French horn Danny Bank, Phil Bodner, Jerome Richardson, Frank Wess - reeds Everett Barksdale, Kenny Burrell, Carl Lynch - guitar Hank Jones - piano Richard Davis - bass Grady Tate - drums Warren Smith, Phil Kraus - percussion Mundell Lowe - arranger, conductor
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