{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Music from "The Connection" | type = studio album | artist = Howard McGhee Quintet with Freddie Redd | cover = Music from the Connection album cover.jpg | alt = | released = 1960 | recorded = June 13, 1960 | venue = | studio = Bell Sound (New York City) | genre = Jazz | length = 29:11 | label = Felsted<br /><small>FL-7512</small> | producer = Alan Lorber, Ernest Kelley | chronology = Howard McGhee | prev_title = Dusty Blue | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = Together Again!!!! | next_year = 1961 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = Freddie Redd | type = studio album | prev_title = The Music From The Connection | prev_year = 1960 | title = Music from "The Connection" | year = 1960 | next_title = Shades of Redd | next_year = 1960 }} }}

'''''Music from The Connection''''' is a jazz album by trumpeter Howard McGhee recorded on June 13, 1960, and released on the Felsted label.<ref>[http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/felsted/felsted.html Felsted Album Discography by David Edwards and Mike Callahan], accessed July 5, 2017</ref><ref>[https://www.discogs.com/Howard-Mc-Ghee-Quintet-Music-From-The-Connection/release/10377114 Discogs album entry], accessed July 5, 2017</ref> It features performances by McGhee, Tina Brooks, Freddie Redd, Milt Hinton and Osie Johnson. The album featured music from the off-Broadway play ''The Connection'' by Jack Gelber, featuring music composed by Redd. A slightly earlier recording of the same score by the Freddie Redd Quartet with Jackie McLean, ''The Music From "The Connection"'', was issued by Blue Note.

{{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album |id=mw0000874231 |title=''Music from the Connection'' – Review |accessdate=July 5, 2017}}</ref> }}

== Track listing == ''All compositions by Freddie Redd''

''Side-A'' # "Who Killed Cock Robin?" - 4:25 # "Wigglin'" - 4:52 # "Music Forever" - 3:46 # "Time to Smile" - 3:53 ''Side-B'' # "(Theme for) Sister Salvation" - 4:36 # "Jim Dunn's Dilemma" - 3:57 # "O.D. (Overdose)" - 3:42

== Personnel == * Howard McGhee - trumpet * Freddie Redd - piano (originally credited to "I. Ching") * Tina Brooks - tenor saxophone * Milt Hinton - bass * Osie Johnson - drums

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