Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet

This album covers roughly two years in Rollins's career when he was beginning to emerge as an important force in contemporary jazz. "I Know" was his first track as a leader, taped at the end of a January 1951 Miles Davis date at Davis's insistence. (Miles even played piano for him.) Sonny's first date as a leader took place on a snowy December night at the end of that year. The meeting with the Modern Jazz Quartet, in October 1953, showed a new maturity, especially in the rendition of Ellington's "In a Sentimental Mood."

1. The Stopper

2. Almost Like Being in Love

3. No Moe

4. In a Sentimental Mood

5. Scoops

6. With a Song in My Heart

7. Newk's Fadeaway

8. Time on My Hands

9. This Love of Mine

10. Shadrack

11. On a Slow Boat to China

12. Mambo Bounce

13. I Know

Customer Reviews (5.00 Stars) 1 person(s) rated this product.

Very nice record. posted on 08/14/2006 5 Stars I know almost nothing about Jazz but this record is worth getting just for the wonderful sound of Sonny Rollin's Tenor Sax. The tone is so good and the sound so warm you will instantly fall in love with this little gem.

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