Great Music, But A Worthless CD
Michael B. Richman | Portland, Maine USA | 08/23/2000
(3 out of 5 stars)
"The music on Sonny Rollins' "Sonny Boy" is awesome, but the folks at OJC should never have released this CD. The reason is three of the five tracks, "Ee-ah," "B. Swift," and "B. Quick" were originally issued on "Tour De Force." A fourth tune, "Sonny Boy," was added to "Tour De Force" as a bonus track to complete the original recording session of 12/7/56. So that leaves you with "The House I Live In," and if you're willing to pay $ for one song then I've got this bridge.... What OJC should have done is nixed the reissue of "Sonny Boy" on CD altogether, and added the "The House I Live In" to the "Rollins Plays for Bird" CD to reunite it with that 10/5/56 session."