Sonny Boy (album)
1961 Jazz album
Sonny Boy | ||||
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Studio album by Sonny Rollins | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | October 5 and December 7, 1956 | |||
Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 39:01 | |||
Label | Prestige PR 7207 | |||
Producer | Bob Weinstock | |||
Sonny Rollins chronology | ||||
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Sonny Boy is a 1961 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins comprising four tracks from his final recordings for the Prestige label, three of which were originally released on Tour de Force, along with an unissued performance from the session that produced Rollins Plays for Bird.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
DownBeat | [3] |
The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
AllMusic critic Scott Yanow states: "Tour de Force is a more logical purchase, although the music on this CD does feature the immortal tenor saxophonist in fine form."[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Rollins except where noted.
- "Ee-Ah" – 6:52
- "B. Quick" – 9:13
- "B. Swift" – 5:15
- "The House I Live In" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) – 9:21
- "Sonny Boy" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Al Jolson) – 8:22
- Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on October 5 (track 4) and December 7 (tracks 1-3 & 5), 1956
Personnel
- Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
- Kenny Dorham – trumpet (backgrounds track 4)
- Kenny Drew (tracks 1-3 & 5), Wade Legge (track 4) – piano
- George Morrow – bass
- Max Roach – drums
References
- v
- t
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- Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet
- Moving Out
- Work Time
- Sonny Rollins Plus 4
- Tenor Madness
- Saxophone Colossus
- Rollins Plays for Bird
- Tour de Force
- Sonny Boy
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1
- Way Out West
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
- The Sound of Sonny
- Freedom Suite
- Newk's Time
- Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass
- Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
- The Bridge
- What's New?
- Our Man in Jazz
- Sonny Meets Hawk!
- Now's the Time
- The Standard Sonny Rollins
- Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
- Alfie
- East Broadway Run Down
- Next Album
- Horn Culture
- Nucleus
- The Way I Feel
- Easy Living
- Don't Ask
- Love at First Sight
- No Problem
- Reel Life
- Sunny Days, Starry Nights
- The Solo Album
- Dancing in the Dark
- Falling in Love with Jazz
- Here's to the People
- Old Flames
- Sonny Rollins + 3
- Global Warming
- This Is What I Do
- Sonny, Please
- A Night at the "Village Vanguard"
- There Will Never Be Another You
- The Cutting Edge
- Don't Stop the Carnival
- G-Man
- Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
- Road Shows, Vol. 1