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Sonny Rollins: SONNY ROLLINS AND THE BIG BRASS: TRIO & QUINTET (2 LPS ON 1 CD) For Sale

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Sonny Rollins

SONNYROLLINS AND THE BIG BRASS: TRIO & QUINTET (2 LPS ON 1 CD)

Personnel:

SonnyRollins (ts), Henry Grimes (b), Specs Wright (d) / Jimmy Cleveland (tb), GilCoggins (p), Wendell Marshall (b), Kenny Dennis (d)

Reference: FSRCD 649

SonnyRollins debut album with a big band was nothing if not impressive. ProducerLeonard Feather joined forces with arranger Ernie Wilkins to give Rollins a setof four orchestral showcases for his horn. The stellar brass section delivers aquality performance, but it is Rollins blowing and his enormous verve, virilityand inventiveness that carry the load. Theres a buoyancy in his playing thatdrives through the album, enlivening also the small group sides. The rhythmsection on the big band date includes Dick Katz on piano, and drummer RoyHaynes, but the bassist on both sessionstrio and Big Brasswas the great HenryGrimes.

Originallyreleased by Metrojazz, the album shows Rollins to considerable advantage inboth settings, and then, on the last track, he stars unaccompanied, full offluency and freshness, on the tune indelibly associated with him - Body andSoul.

The lastsession in this set was also a Feather production, recorded for Period Recordsin 1957, coincidentally the year Rollins was voted New Tenor Sax Star in theDown Beat Critics Poll. This time the setting is a quintet, with JimmyCleveland on trombone. Rollins work on the funky blues Sonnymoon for Two has anarresting, stop-time chorus and though he hardly alters his regular rhythmicstyle, no tenor back then could swing more with more authority and sustaineddrive.

Tracklisting:

01. GrandStreet (Rollins) 5:55

02. Far OutEast (Wilkins) 4:31

03. WhoCares? (G. & I. Gershwin) 3:56

04. Love Isa Simple Thing (Carroll-Siegel) 3:00

05. Whats MyName? (Saxon-Well) 3:46

06. If YouWere the Only Girl in the World (Ayer-Grey) 5:07

07.Manhattan (Rodgers-Hart) 4:28

08. Body andSoul -tenor sax solo (Green-Heyman-Sour-Eyton) 4:17

09.Sonnymoon for Two (Rollins) 9:05

10. LikeSomeone in Love (Burke-Van Heusen) 4:57

11. Themefrom Symphony No.6 Pathetique (Tchaikovsky) 5:56

Total time: 55:00 min. aprox.

Original sources:

Tracks #1-8from the Metrojazz album "Sonny Rollins and The Big Brass" (StereoE1002)

Laterreissued as Verve Stereo V-8430

Tracks #9-11from the Period album "Sonny Rollins Plays" (LP1204)

Personnel on #1-4:

Nat Adderley(cnt), Clark Terry, Reunald Jones, Ernie Royal (tp), Billy Byers, JimmyCleveland, Frank Rehak (tb), Don Butterfield (tuba), Sonny Rollins (ts), DickKatz (p), René Thomas (g), Henry Grimes (b) and Roy Haynes (d). Ernie Wilkins(arr, dir).

Recorded atMetropolitan Studios, New York, on July 11, 1958

Personnel on #5-8:

SonnyRollins (ts), Henry Grimes (b) and Specs Wright (d).

Recorded atBeltone Studios, New York, on July 10, 1958

Personnel on #9-11:

JimmyCleveland (tb), Sonny Rollins (ts), Gil Coggins (p), Wendell Marshall (b) andKenny Dennis (d).

Recorded inNew York, on November 4, 1957

Originalrecordings produced by Leonard Feather

Produced forCD release by Jordi Pujol

Stereo24-Bit Digitally Remastered

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Sonny Rollins: SONNY ROLLINS AND THE BIG BRASS: TRIO & QUINTET (2 LPS ON 1 CD) For Sale

Sonny Rollins: SONNY ROLLINS AND THE BIG BRASS: TRIO & QUINTET (2 LPS ON 1 CD): $19.98

Sonny Rollins: SONNY ROLLINS AND THE BIG BRASS: TRIO & QUINTET (2 LPS ON 1 CD):
$19.98