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| The Definitive Sonny Rollins on Prestige, Riverside, and Contemporary (2CD) |
| Sonny Rollins |
| első megjelenés éve: 2010 |
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| (2010)
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2 x CD |
| 4.742 Ft
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| 1. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Mambo Bounce
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| 2. | In A Sentimental Mood
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| 3. | Airegin
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| 4. | Doxy
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| 5. | Oleo
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| 6. | Moving Out
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| 7. | The Way You Look Tonight
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| 8. | Paradox
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| 9. | Pent-Up House
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| 10. | Valse Hot
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| 11. | Tenor Madness
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| 12. | St. Thomas
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| 2. CD tartalma: |
| 1. | Blue 7
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| 2. | I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face
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| 3. | Sonny Boy
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| 4. | Bemsha Swing
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| 5. | I'm an Old Cowhand
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| 6. | Way Out West
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| 7. | It Could Happen To You
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| 8. | The Freedom Suite
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| 9. | I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
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Jazz
Abbey Anna - Art Direction
Al Jolson - Composer
Art Blakey - Drums
Art Taylor - Drums
Barney Kessel - Guitar
Bill Grauer, Jr. - Producer
Bob Blumenthal - Liner Notes
Bob Weinstock - Supervisor
Buddy DeSylva - Composer
Burt Goldblatt - Photography
Chris Clough - Project Assistant
Clifford Brown - Trumpet
Denzil Best - Composer
Dorothy Fields - Composer
Doug Watkins - Bass
Duke Ellington - Composer
Elmo Hope - Piano
Ernie Henry - Sax (Alto)
Frederick Loewe - Composer
George Morrow - Bass
Hampton Hawes - Piano
Horace Silver - Piano
Irving Mills - Composer
Jack Higgins - Engineer
James Van Heusen - Composer
Jerome Kern - Composer
Jimmy Hole - Package Design
Joe Tarantino - Mastering
John Coltrane - Sax (Tenor)
John Lewis - Piano
Johnny Burke - Composer
Johnny Mercer - Composer
Kenny Clarke - Drums
Kenny Dorham - Trumpet
Kenny Drew - Piano
Lerner - Composer
Leroy Vinnegar - Bass
Lester Koenig - Producer
Lew Brown - Composer
Manny Kurtz - Composer
Max Roach - Drums
Miles Davis - Leader, Trumpet
Milt Jackson - Vibraphone
Nick Phillips - Compilation Producer
Orrin Keepnews - Producer
Oscar Hammerstein II - Composer
Oscar Pettiford - Bass
Paul Chambers - Bass
Paul Hoeffler - Photography
Percy Heath - Bass
Philly Joe Jones - Drums
Ray Brown - Bass
Ray Bryant - Piano
Ray Henderson - Composer
Red Garland - Piano
Richie Powell - Piano
Rikka Arnold - Editorial
Roy DuNann - Engineer
Rudy Van Gelder - Engineer
Sam Morse - Engineer
Shelly Manne - Drums
Sonny Rollins - Composer, Sax (Tenor), Soloist
Thelonious Monk - Composer, Leader, Piano
Tommy Flanagan - Piano
Tommy Potter - Bass
Wade Legge - Piano
The Definitive Sonny Rollins on Prestige, Riverside and Contemporary comes out a few weeks ahead of Rollins' 80th birthday on September 7, 2010. This Sonny Rollins set covers almost an entire decade, from a December 1951 session in New York for Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet to an October 1958 session in Los Angeles for Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders.
"That was such a significant period in the development of jazz in general, and Sonny Rollins was at the heart of all that was going on during that decade," says Nick Phillips, Concord Music Group's Vice President of Jazz and Catalog A&R and the producer of the Definitive series. "Just look at the Miles Davis session where he recorded 'Airegin,' 'Doxy' and 'Oleo,' for example. Those are all tunes that he penned, and all remain indelible jazz standards. That's a whole lot of jazz history that was made on just a single day in the summer of 1954."
Liner notes for The Definitive Sonny Rollins are provided by music journalist Bob Blumenthal, co-author with photographer John Abbott of the forthcoming book, Saxophone Colossus: A Portrait of Sonny Rollins.
"That the marks of [Rollins'] genius were fully apparent in the music he made over a half-century ago has been obvious to all who have followed the trajectory of his unprecedented career," says Blumenthal. "As a contract artist with Prestige Records between 1951 and 1956, and through his work on various labels from 1957 until the beginning of an extended sabbatical two years later, Rollins laid the foundation for his status as a master improviser, saxophonist and composer; an influence far beyond his chosen instrument and idiom; and a living icon of affirmative creativity. Concord Music Group is the steward of many of the finest Rollins performances of the '50s, and has culled them well in presenting this short course in what made Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins."
This two disc set highlights recordings made between 1951 and 1958 by the tenor saxophonist for the legendary jazz labels., Rovi
Sonny Rollins
Active Decades: '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 07, 1930 in New York, NY
Genre: Jazz
Styles: World Fusion, Bop, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz, Trumpet Jazz
Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonist of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York City on September 7, 1930, he had an older brother who played violin. At age nine he took up piano lessons but discontinued them, took up the alto saxophone in high school, and switched to tenor after high school, doing local engagements. In 1948 he recorded with vocalist Babs Gonzales, then Bud Powell and Fats Navarro, and his first composition, "Audubon," was recorded by J.J. Johnson. Soon thereafter, Rollins made the rounds quickly with groups led by Art Blakey, Tadd Dameron, Chicago drummer Ike Day, and Miles Davis in 1951, followed by his own recordings with Kenny Drew, Kenny Dorham, and Thelonious Monk.
In 1956 Rollins made his biggest move, joining the famous ensemble of Max Roach and Clifford Brown, then formed his own legendary pianoless trio with bassist Wilbur Ware or Donald Bailey and drummer Elvin Jones or Pete La Roca in 1957, doing recorded sessions at the Village Vanguard. Awards came from Down Beat and Playboy magazines, and recordings were done mainly for the Prestige and Riverside labels, but also for Verve, Blue Note, Columbia, and Contemporary Records, all coinciding with the steadily rising star of Rollins. Pivotal albums such as Tenor Madness (with John Coltrane), Saxophone Colossus (with longstanding partner Tommy Flanagan), and Way Out West (with Ray Brown and Shelly Manne), and collaborations with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Clark Terry, and Sonny Clark firmly established Rollins as a bona fide superstar. He also acquired the nickname "Newk" for his facial resemblance to Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe.
But between 1959 and 1961 he sought a less superficial, more spiritual path to the rat race society of the times, visiting Japan and India, studying yoga and Zen. He left the music business until 1962, when he returned with the groundbreaking and in many ways revolutionary recording The Bridge with guitarist Jim Hall for the RCA Victor/Bluebird label. Rollins struck up a working relationship with trumpeter Don Cherry; did a handful of innovative LPs for the RCA Victor, MGM/Metro Jazz, and Impulse! labels; did one record with his hero Coleman Hawkins; and left the scene again in 1968. By 1971 he came back with a renewed sense of vigor and pride, and put out a string of successful records for the Milestone label that bridged the gap between the contemporary and fusion jazz of the time, the most memorable being his live date from the 1974 Montreux Jazz Festival, The Cutting Edge. Merging jazz with calypso, light funk, and post-bop, the career of Rollins not only was revived, but thrived from then onward. He was a member of the touring Milestone Jazz Stars in 1978 with McCoy Tyner and Ron Carter, and gained momentum as a touring headliner and festival showstopper.
His finest Milestone recordings of the second half of his career include Easy Living, Don't Stop the Carnival, G-Man, Old Flames, Plus Three, Global Warming, This Is What I Do, and Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. He has worked extensively with road and recording bands that have included such artists as electric bass guitarist Bob Cranshaw; trombonist Clifton Anderson; pianists Tommy Flanagan and Stephen Scott; keyboardist Mark Soskin; guitarists Bobby Broom and Jerome Harris; percussionist Kimati Dinizulu; and drummers Jack DeJohnette, Perry Wilson, Steve Jordan, and Al Foster. Rollins formed his own record label, Doxy, through which he issued the CD Sonny, Please in 2006. Well into his eighth decade of life, Rollins continued to perform worldwide. As a composer, he will always be known for three memorable melodies that have become standards and well-recognized tunes in the jazz canon -- "Oleo," "Airegin," and especially "St. Thomas."
---Michael G. Nastos, All Music Guide |
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