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Sonny Rollins - Rollins Plays For Bird

 (Mono)


Label:

Analogue Productions (Prestige)

Genre:

Jazz

Product No.:
CPRJ 7095 SA
UPC: 753088709562
Availability:
Limited Stock
Category:

Hybrid Mono SACD



Hybrid Mono SACD
Original Price: $30.00
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Hybrid Mono SACD for sale individually and as part of Analogue Productions’ Prestige Mono Series

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As the tenor sax is not in the same key as an alto, Sonny Rollins would have to transpose a lot of music to take a tribute to Charlie Parker to a high level. Instead Rollins has chosen standards associated with Parker, and recorded them within a year after Bird’s passing.

The music certainly has its moments, as on the inexhaustible 27-minute medley of seven tunes seamlessly stitched together. Rollins plays the melody on alternating songs "I Remember You" and "They Can’t Take That Away from Me," Kenny Dorham has at it for "My Melancholy Baby" and "Just Friends," with Wade Legge getting his two cents in on trio only versions of "Old Folks" and "My Little Suede Shoes." Finally the whole band joins in on the ten-minute medley finale "Star Eyes." Two independent selections accompany the medley: Rollins does the ballad "I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your (Her) Face," from the musical "My Fair Lady" and the horns finally play together for the nearly 12-minute cool waltz "Kids Know."

Originally released in 1956


Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
Wade Legge, piano
George Morrow, bass
Max Roach, drums
Kenny Dorham, trumpet 

 



1. Medley: I Remember You, My Melancholy Baby, Old Folks, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Just Friends, My Little Suede Shoes & Star Eyes
2. Kids Know
3. I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face

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