Down Through the Years

1992 live album by The Clifford Jordan Big Band

Live album by

The Clifford Jordan Big Band

Released

1992

Recorded

October 7, 1991

Venue

Condon's, NYC

Genre

Jazz

Length

59:05

Label

Milestone MCD-9197-2

Producer

Helen Keane

Clifford Jordan chronology

Play What You Feel
(1990)

Down Through the Years
(1992)

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[6]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[7]

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".^[6]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"I Waited for You"	Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller	5:23
2.	"Highest Mountain"	Clifford Jordan	4:56
3.	"Con Man"	Dizzy Reece	9:04
4.	"Down Through the Years"	Jordan	5:56
5.	"Don't Get Around Much Anymore"	Ellington, Bob Russell	8:05
6.	"Status Quo"	John Neely	7:24
7.	"Japanese Dream"	Jordan	4:59
8.	"Third Avenue"	Jordan	7:07
9.	"Charlie Parker's Last Supper"	Jordan	6:50
Total length:			59:05

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

References

^ Jazzlists: Milestone Records 9000 series discography, accessed September 26, 2017.
^ Jazzlists: Clifford Jordan discography, accessed September 26, 2017.
^ Clifford Jordan leader entry, accessed September 26, 2017.
^ Clifford Jordan catalog, accessed September 26, 2017.
^ Jazzdiscography: Milestone Records Listing, accessed September 26, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Dryden, Ken. Clifford Jordan: Down Through the Years – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 801. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

Clifford Jordan

Year(s) indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.

As
leader or
co-leader

Blowing in from Chicago (1957)
Cliff Jordan (1957)
Jenkins, Jordan and Timmons (1957)
Cliff Craft (1957)
Spellbound (1960)
A Story Tale (1961)
Starting Time (1961)
Bearcat (1962)
These are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965)
Soul Fountain (1966)
In the World (1969)
Glass Bead Games (1973)
Half Note (1974)
Night of the Mark VII (aka, The Highest Mountain, Muse, 1975)
On Stage Vol. 1 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 2 (1975)
On Stage Vol. 3 (1975)
Firm Roots (1975)
The Highest Mountain (SteepleChase, 1975)
Remembering Me-Me (1976)
Inward Fire (1977)
The Adventurer (1978)
Hello, Hank Jones (1978)
Hyde Park After Dark (1981)
Repetition (1984)
Dr. Chicago (1984)
Two Tenor Winner (1984)
The Rotterdam Session (1985)
Royal Ballads (1986)
Live at Ethell's (1987)
Masters from Different Worlds (1989)
Four Play (1990)
The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan (1989–91)
Play What You Feel (1990)
Down Through the Years (1991)

With
Art
Farmer

Mirage (1982)
You Make Me Smile (1984)
Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn (1987)
Blame It on My Youth (1988)
Ph.D. (1989)

With
Charles
Mingus

Cornell 1964 (March 1964)
Town Hall Concert (April 1964)
Astral Weeks (April 1964)
Mingus in Europe Volume I (April 1964)
Mingus in Europe Volume II (April 1964)
Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop (June 1964)

With
Lee
Morgan

Here's Lee Morgan (1960)
Expoobident (1960)
Take Twelve (1962)

With
Max
Roach

Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
It's Time (1962)
Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)

With
Cedar
Walton

Spectrum (1968)
The Electric Boogaloo Song (1969)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 1/Naima (1973)
A Night at Boomers, Vol. 2 (1973)
The Pentagon (1976)

With
others

Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
Sonny Clark Quintets/My Conception (1957)
Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Richard Davis, 1972)
Dealin' (Richard Davis, 1973)
Iron Man (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
Conversations (Eric Dolphy, 1963)
To Bird with Love (Dizzy Gillespie, 1992)
Roots (Slide Hampton, 1985)
Luminous (John Hicks and Elise Wood, 1985)
Shades (Andrew Hill, 1986)
J.J. Inc. (J.J. Johnson, 1961)
Con Alma! (Charles McPherson, 1965)
Any Old Time (Carmen McRae, 1986)
Carmen Sings Monk (Carmen McRae, 1988)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 1 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
Live at the Theatre Boulogne-Billancourt/Paris, Vol. 2 (Mingus Dynasty, 1988)
Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962)
Manhattan Project (Dizzy Reece, 1976)
The Jazz We Heard Last Summer (Sahib Shihab, 1957)
Further Explorations (Horace Silver, 1958)
Music Inc. (Charles Tolliver, 1970)
What It Is (Mal Waldron, 1981)
Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1967)

v t e Dizzy Reece
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Blues in Trinity (1958) Star Bright (1959) Comin' On! (1960) Soundin' Off (1960) Asia Minor (1962) From In to Out (1970) Blowin' Away (with Ted Curson, 1978) Manhattan Project (1978)
With others	Suite Sixteen (Victor Feldman, 1955) The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968) A Day in Copenhagen (Dexter Gordon, 1969) Passing Ships (Andrew Hill, 1969) Round Midnight (Philly Joe Jones, 1969) Inward Fire (Clifford Jordan, 1977) Play What You Feel (Clifford Jordan, 1990) Down Through the Years (Clifford Jordan, 1991) Flight to Jordan (Duke Jordan, 1960) The Flip (Hank Mobley, 1969)