Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Sonny Rollins Title: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Sonny Rollins Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Polygram Records Original Release Date: 11/7/2000 Release Date: 11/7/2000 Genres: Jazz, Pop Styles: Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 731454909129 |
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Among the most creative voices to emerge from the 1950s hard-bop movement, Sonny Rollins has long been one of the most commanding soloists in jazz, a masterful tenor saxophonist whose big sound can encompass ballad warmth ... more » |
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Amazon.com Among the most creative voices to emerge from the 1950s hard-bop movement, Sonny Rollins has long been one of the most commanding soloists in jazz, a masterful tenor saxophonist whose big sound can encompass ballad warmth and blazing runs. This compilation concentrates on Rollins's most creative years, from 1954 to 1966, and includes some of his best-known compositions, tunes like "Oleo" (played here with Miles Davis's band) and "St. Thomas," which are now standards in the jazz repertoire. His playing has often used thematic improvisation, varying and extending a tune's original melody with remarkable rhythmic creativity to unfurl long solos of brilliant structural coherence, heard here in a version of his "Sonnymoon for Two." Rollins has also demonstrated an unusual sense of humor, sometimes using unlikely tunes--like "I'm an Old Cowhand"--as a basis for his solos. His relationship to the senior tenor master, Coleman Hawkins, takes two forms here, in the unaccompanied version of "Body and Soul" and in 1963's "All the Things You Are," with Hawkins joining Rollins at his most experimental. --Stuart Broomer Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsNot a definitive set...merely a collection of great tracks! J. Lund | SoCal, USA | 02/01/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Certainly this Sonny Rollins overview is in need of a volume two...to get the listener caught up with all that this still-active saxophone legend has accomplished since 1966. Yet if one accepts that the CD's "Definitive" title isn't technically accurate, this is a great sampler of the highlights of Rollins' first decade-and-a-half as an all-time jazz great.Rollins is featured in a variety of small-group settings, including an early recording of his classic composition OLEO on a session led by Miles Davis. Other jazz legends are heard (trumpeters Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespie among them), but no one can really overshadow Rollins' own brilliance, both as a musician and as a songwriter (VALSE HOT, ST. THOMAS, BLUE SEVEN, THE BRIDGE). And when he isn't recording his own tunes, he is reinvigorating such classic pop tunes as BODY AND SOUL and ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE (the latter alongside the great reedman Coleman Hawkins). Of course, no single CD can cover all of the highlights of even this relatively small portion of Sonny's half-century long career. Yet the bottom line is that this disc is full of five-star, prime Rollins--as much as can be stuffed onto one CD!" A great compilation G. Sawaged | Canada | 06/09/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "I have read a lot of reviews on Ken Burn's Jazz series...the documentary as well as the cds. And I can't understand why so many people slam him for his work. I guess it's true...you just can't please all of the people all of the time. But the way I look at it is, is that the series turned a whole lot of people on to jazz, people who otherwise didn't care much for it. It brought more fans to the music, which can only be a good thing. This is my first introduction really to Sonny Rollins, although I do have the odd track of his on compilations. And it certainly won't be my last cd of his either. These albums in the Ken Burns series are a great way for people to sample an artists work over various years and labels, before deciding whether to buy other cds of that particular artist or not. And I am sure that most people will want to buy other albums once they have heard this album or other similar ones, which is good, not only for the artist but for the whole of the jazz community." Wow! R. J. Marsella | California | 11/27/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "If you are unfamiliar with Rollin's this will convert you into a fan. Tracks from various stages of his career featuring a virtual whos who of modern jazz provide an excellent intro to this amazing artist. Max Roache's drum into to St. Thomas would be worth the price alone. Sonny Rollin's is the jazz musician's musician and for good reason. His virtuosity comes through loud and clear on every track.This is the real thing...highest recommendation."
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