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| 1. Valse Hot from Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | |||
| 2. Kiss And Run from Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | |||
| 3. I Feel A song Coming On from Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | |||
| 4. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep from Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | |||
| 5. Pent-Up House from Sonny Rollins Plus 4 | |||
| 6. Decision from Sonny Rollins Volume 1 | |||
| 7. Bluesnote from Sonny Rollins Volume 1 | |||
| 8. How Are Things In Glocca Morra? from Sonny Rollins Volume 1 | |||
| 9. Plain Jane from Sonny Rollins Volume 1 | |||
| 10. Sonnysphere from Sonny Rollins Volume 1 | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Wail March from Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | |||
| 2. Misterioso from Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | |||
| 3. Reflections from Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | |||
| 4. You Stepped Out Of A Dream from Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | |||
| 5. Poor Butterfly from Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | |||
| 6. St. Thomas from Saxophone Colossus | |||
| 7. You Don't Know What Love Is from Saxophone Colossus | |||
| 8. Strode Rode from Saxophone Colossus | |||
| 9. Moritat from Saxophone Colossus | |||
| 10. Blue Seven from Saxophone Colossus | |||
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AVID Jazz presents four classic Sonny Rollins albums on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.
We start off in March 1956 with `Sonny Rollins Plus 4' where unsurprisingly we find Sonny accompanied, by you guessed it, four stellar jazzmen. Clifford Brown on trumpet, Max Roach on drums, George Morrow on bass and Richie Powell on piano. Recorded a little later the same year in December 1956 our second offering is `Sonny Rollins Volume One' where Sonny is found in the company of Donald Byrd on trumpet, Wynton Kelly on piano, Gene Ramey on bass and our old friend Max Roach on drums. CD2 moves on to 1957 for `Sonny Rollins Volume Two' where Sonny is joined by another fantastic line up including Thelonious Monk playing piano on his own classic compositions `Misterioso' and `Reflections'. Monk is then replaced by the great Horace Silver while Paul Chambers continues on bass and Art Blakey is behind the drum kit while Jay Jay Johnson plays the trombone.........phew!! We round the set off with Sonny's undisputed masterpiece of the period, recorded a year earlier in 1956. `Saxophone Colossus' finds the great man playing at his most consistent and making memorable music with Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and that man again, Max Roach on drums!
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
We start off in March 1956 with `Sonny Rollins Plus 4' where unsurprisingly we find Sonny accompanied, by you guessed it, four stellar jazzmen. Clifford Brown on trumpet, Max Roach on drums, George Morrow on bass and Richie Powell on piano. Recorded a little later the same year in December 1956 our second offering is `Sonny Rollins Volume One' where Sonny is found in the company of Donald Byrd on trumpet, Wynton Kelly on piano, Gene Ramey on bass and our old friend Max Roach on drums. CD2 moves on to 1957 for `Sonny Rollins Volume Two' where Sonny is joined by another fantastic line up including Thelonious Monk playing piano on his own classic compositions `Misterioso' and `Reflections'. Monk is then replaced by the great Horace Silver while Paul Chambers continues on bass and Art Blakey is behind the drum kit while Jay Jay Johnson plays the trombone.........phew!! We round the set off with Sonny's undisputed masterpiece of the period, recorded a year earlier in 1956. `Saxophone Colossus' finds the great man playing at his most consistent and making memorable music with Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and that man again, Max Roach on drums!
All four albums have been digitally re-mastered for probably the finest sound quality ever!
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32 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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Yes! DO NOT miss this one; four true classic albums by THE tenor man of the period from 1956-7. Great sound; listen to some of the samples above and of course the quality of the music speaks for itself. Each album features stellar line-ups; with "Plus 4" you get the Roach/Brown Quintet with Rollins taking the place of Harold Land (the album was recorded under Rollins` name for contractual reasons and this was Brown`s last studio recording) and this was quite possibly the most perfect Hard Bop teaming ever; it also saw the begining of the Roach/Rollins teamwork which is so wonderfully demonstrated on "Vol.1" and "Saxophone Colossus". And "Colossus" is the jewel in an already glittering crown, an album that features on any list that matters concerning Rollins or jazz in general! There are no passengers on these recordings, you get great work from all the players and Rollins himself is at his best.
This is music to enjoy, study and treasure; with an already impressive list so far, this has to be Avid`s finest release. Playing times; disc one 79 mins, disc two 75 mins. Highly recommended.
This is music to enjoy, study and treasure; with an already impressive list so far, this has to be Avid`s finest release. Playing times; disc one 79 mins, disc two 75 mins. Highly recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is a well-priced re-issue of some of Sonny Rollins' 50s material, considered by many to be the best period in his career. You get a lot of music for a low price; but these are not the best four albums from this period: Saxophone Colossus is a must of course, and Plus-4 has its merits (in particular the fine trumpet playing of Clifford Brown) but the two volumes of Sonny Rollins are merely average compared to some of the other great material Rollins was producing in the same period: the albums Tour De Force, Tenor Madness, Work Time, The Sound of Sonny and Newk's Time, which aren't here, are in my opinion all superior to Sonny Rollins Vol 1 and 2, which are included here; yet they're from the same period.
However, there is an 8-Album set (8 Classic Albums) that includes all four of the albums here, along with Tenor Madness, Tour De Force, Moving Out and Work Time; for less then twice the price of this four-album set, rendering this one rather superfluous.
However, there is an 8-Album set (8 Classic Albums) that includes all four of the albums here, along with Tenor Madness, Tour De Force, Moving Out and Work Time; for less then twice the price of this four-album set, rendering this one rather superfluous.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this mainly to replace my vinyl copy of Saxophone Colossus (worth the money on its own). The other three discs are an excellent bonus.
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