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Soul Street is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Forrest compiled from four different sessions between 1960 and 1962 and released on New Jazz

Track listing:
All compositions by Jimmy Forrest except where noted.

“Soul Street” – 9:06
“I Love You” (Harry Archer, Harlan Thompson) – 5:13
“Sonny Boy” (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson) – 3:19
“Soft Summer Breeze” (Eddie Heywood, Judy Spencer) – 4:07
“Experiment in Terror” (Henry Mancini) – 2:25
“Just A-Sittin’ and A-Rockin'” (Duke Ellington, Lee Gaines, Billy Strayhorn) – 3:56
“That’s All” (Alan Brandt, Bob Haymes) – 4:51
“I Wanna Blow, Blow, Blow” (Jerry Valentine) – 5:53 Bonus track on CD reissue
Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on August 29, 1958 (track 8) and at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 9, 1960 (track 1), September 1, 1960 (track 7), October 19, 1960 (tracks 2 & 3), 1961 and June 1, 1962 (tracks 4–6)

Personnel:
Jimmy Forrest – tenor saxophone
Art Farmer (track 8), Ernie Royal (tracks 4–6), Idrees Sulieman (track 8) – trumpet
Jimmy Cleveland (tracks 4–6), George “Buster” Cooper (track 8) – trombone
Jerome Richardson – alto saxophone, flute (track 8)
George Barrow (tracks 4–6), King Curtis (track 1), Seldon Powell (tracks 4–6) – tenor saxophone
Pepper Adams – baritone saxophone (track 8)
Ray Bryant (track 8), Gene Casey (track 1), Hugh Lawson (tracks 2, 3 & 7), Chris Woods (tracks 4–6) – piano
Tiny Grimes (track 8), Mundell Lowe (tracks 4–6), Calvin Newborn (track 7) – guitar
Richard Davis (tracks 4–6), George Duvivier (track 1), Wendell Marshall (track 8), Tommy Potter (tracks 2, 3 & 7) – bass
Roy Haynes (track 1), Osie Johnson (track 8), Clarence Johnston (tracks 2, 3 & 7), Ed Shaughnessy (tracks 4–6) – drums
Ray Barretto – congas (tracks 2 & 3)
Oliver Nelson – tenor saxophone (track 1), arranger and conductor (tracks 4–6)
Jerry Valentine – arranger (track 8)

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Released: 1962
Recorded: September 9, 1960, September 1 and October 19, 1961 and June 1, 1962
Studio: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Length: 49:09
Label: New Jazz
NJLP 8293
Producer: Esmond Edwards