The Connection (1959 play)

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[edit] Production Credits

Written by Jack Gelber
Directed by Judith Malina
Setting Design by Julian Beck

[edit] Related Works

Recordings

• The Music from "The Connection", original score Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean, Michael Mattos and Larry Ritchie, February 15, 1960, Blue Note, BN 4027.
• The Music from "The Connection", original score, new cast Freddie Redd, Howard McGhee, Osie Johnson, Milt Hinton, Tina Brooks (originally Jackie McLean's understudy.
• The Music from "The Connection", rewritten score Cecil Payne, Clark Terry, Bennie Green, Duke Jordan, Ron Carter, and Charlie Persip, 1962
• The Music from "The Connection", score to accompany LA production Dexter Gordon

Other Productions

• Los Angeles, 1960
• European Tour; Italy, France, Germany and Greece

[edit] References

• Lionel Abel, Partisan Review, Winter, 1960 - "What adds to the play's power is that the characters are so like other people, though in such a different situation from most people."
• Ira Gitler, Liner notes to BN 4027