Breakout (Johnny Hammond album)

Breakout
Studio album by
Released1971
RecordedJune 3 and 4, 1971
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
GenreJazz
Length34:25
LabelKudu
KU-01
ProducerCreed Taylor
Johnny "Hammond" Smith chronology
What's Going On
(1971)
Breakout
(1971)
Wild Horses Rock Steady
(1971)

Breakout is an album by jazz organist Johnny Hammond recorded for the Kudu label in 1971. The album was the first release on Creed Taylor's Kudu label, a subsidiary of CTI Records. Hammond had previously recorded as Johnny "Hammond" Smith; this was the first album for which he dropped his surname.