Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plays EP

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 37:57
Size: 88.0 MB
Label: Essential Media
Styles: Hard bop, Saxophone jazz
Year: 1981/2010
Art: Front

[8:58] 1. Sonnymoon For Two
[4:55] 2. Like Someone In Love
[5:55] 3. Theme From Tchaikovsky's Symphony Pathetique
[4:12] 4. Lust For Life
[6:33] 5. I Got It Thad
[7:21] 6. Ballad Medley: Flamingo / If You Were Mine / I'm Through With Love / Love Walked In

Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonists of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York City on September 7, 1930, he had an older brother who played violin. At age nine he took up piano lessons but discontinued them, took up the alto saxophone in high school, and switched to tenor after high school, doing local engagements. In 1948 he recorded with vocalist Babs Gonzales, then Bud Powell and Fats Navarro, and his first composition, "Audubon," was recorded by J.J. Johnson. Soon thereafter, Rollins made the rounds quickly with groups led by Tadd Dameron, Chicago drummer Ike Day, and Miles Davis in 1951, followed by his own recordings with Kenny Drew, Kenny Dorham, and Thelonious Monk. ~excerpt from bio by Michael G. Nastos

Bass – Doug Watkins (tracks: B1, B2), Eddie Jones (tracks: B3), Wendell Marshall (tracks: A1 to A3); Drums – Elvin Jones (tracks: B3), Jo Jones (tracks: B1, B2), Kenny Dennis (tracks: A1 to A3); Piano – Gil Coggins (tracks: A1 to A3), Jimmy Jones (3) (tracks: B1, B2), Tommy Flanagan (tracks: B3); Tenor Saxophone – Frank Foster (tracks: B1, B2), Sonny Rollins (tracks: A1 to A3); Tenor Saxophone, Flute – Frank Wess (tracks: B3); Trombone – Henry Coker (tracks: B3), Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: A1 to A3); Trumpet – Thad Jones (tracks: B1 to B3).

Recorded in November 4, 1957 at the Belton Studios in New York City; Esoteric Sound Studios in New York City; January 6, 1957 at the Esoteric Sound Studios in New York City.

Sonny Rollins Plays EP

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