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Picking up only ten days after Fantasy's Complete Prestige Recordings box leaves off, these five discs run through one of Rollins' most fertile (some insist, the most fertile) periods. Not only are Rollins' Riverside and Contemporary sessions as a leader and sideman collected in toto; Fantasy also includes three tracks recorded for Period in 1957, which can finally be heard within the context of Rollins' late-'50s hot streak. The box kicks off at the end of 1956 with almost all of Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners album, where Rollins alternates with alto saxophonist Ernie Henry. Then comes a quantum leap in inspiration, Way Out West, which is just bursting with invention and wry humor as well as cyclical references to previously played tunes; it relies only upon bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne for support without needing anything more. Four tracks from Kenny Dorham's Jazz Contrasts find Rollins taking a subdued or conventionally frenetic bop backseat, while The Sound of Sonny approaches Way Out West's level as Rollins operates with piano trio backing and alone. Sonny appears only in flashes on Abbey Lincoln's sometimes melodramatic That's Him. Following the Period tracks, where Rollins' tone is especially grandiose in the Ben Webster tradition, Rollins, bassist Oscar Petitford, and drummer Max Roach extend themselves astonishingly well through the colossal, nearly 20-minute title track of The Freedom Suite. The odyssey concludes on the West Coast with another great session, the unquenchably swinging Sonny Rollins Meets the Contemporary Leaders -- Rollins' last before his first "retirement" -- where various combinations of sidemen provoke some especially creative playing from Sonny. All previously released alternate takes are included, but there is only one unreleased track -- a rip-roaring alternate of "You" from the Contemporary Leaders sessions -- which will drive Rollins completists entirely mad. If the budget allows, it's worth the splurge.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Chambers, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, Trumpet, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Denzil Best, Composer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Thelonious Monk, Composer, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Pettiford, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Ernie Henry, Alto Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Clark Terry, FeaturedArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drum, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - RAY BROWN, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shelly Manne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Lester Koenig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1991 Contemporary Records
Andy Hummel, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Contemporary Records, Inc.
Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Contemporary Records, Inc.
Marty Symes, ComposerLyricist - Isham Jones, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Contemporary Records, Inc.
Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - William Hill, ComposerLyricist - Peter DeRose, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Contemporary Records, Inc.
DISC 2
Duke Ellington, ComposerLyricist - Irving Mills, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Eddie Delange, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Contemporary Records, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Fantasy, Inc.
Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1988 Fantasy, Inc.
Marty Symes, Author - Isham Jones, Composer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 2000 Fantasy, Inc.
Andy Hummel, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1988 Fantasy, Inc.
Richard Rodgers, Composer - Lorenz Hart, Composer - Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Hank Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Arthur Johnston, ComposerLyricist - Sam Coslow, ComposerLyricist - Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Hank Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 3
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Hank Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, MainArtist - Hank Jones, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Gene De Paul, Composer - Don Raye, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, FeaturedArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Patricia Johnston, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Jerome Kern, Composer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Roy Haynes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Jule Styne, ComposerLyricist - Sammy Cahn, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Dan Russo, ComposerLyricist - Gus Kahn, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Ernie Erdman, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Edgar "Yip" Harburg, Author - Vernon Duke, Composer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, ComposerLyricist - Jerome Kern, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Clark, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Percy Heath, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Roy Haynes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Cole Porter, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Clark, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Percy Heath, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Roy Haynes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Sonny Clark, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Percy Heath, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Roy Haynes, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Johnny Burke, Author - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Dee Libbey, ComposerLyricist - Sid Wayne, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1957 Fantasy, Inc.
Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Johnny Mercer, Author - Bernie Hanighen, Composer - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Gordon Jenkins, Composer - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 4
Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Oscar Brown, Jr., ComposerLyricist - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Harold Arlen, ComposerLyricist - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - E.Y. HARBURG, ComposerLyricist - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Kurt Weill, Composer - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ogden Nash, Author - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Maurice Yvain, Composer - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Channing Pollock, Author - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jean Louis Marcel Charles, Author - Albert Lucien Willemetz, Author - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Billie Holiday, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Arthur Herzog Jr., ComposerLyricist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1957 Riverside, Inc.
Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1988 Fantasy, Inc.
Dorothy Fields, ComposerLyricist - Paul Chambers, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Kenny Dorham, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer - Wynton Kelly, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy McHugh, ComposerLyricist - Abbey Lincoln, MainArtist - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, AssociatedPerformer - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Orrin Keepnews, Producer - Jack Higgins, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Bill Grauer, Producer
℗ 1988 Fantasy, Inc.
Wendell Marshall, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Cleveland, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Kenny Dennis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Gil Coggins, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Wendell Marshall, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Cleveland, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Johnny Burke, Author - Jimmy Van Heusen, Composer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Kenny Dennis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Gil Coggins, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Wendell Marshall, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Jimmy Cleveland, Trombone, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer - Kenny Dennis, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Gil Coggins, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Meredith Willson, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Noel Coward, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Matt Dennis, ComposerLyricist - Tom Adair, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - AL DUBIN, Author - Harry Warren, Composer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Meredith Willson, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1989 Fantasy, Inc.
DISC 5
Oscar Pettiford, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Max Roach, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Jerome Kern, Composer - Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shelly Manne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Oscar Hammerstein II , Author - Leroy Vinnegar, Upright Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Sonny Rollins, Tenor Saxophone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Hampton Hawes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Lester Koenig, Producer, Recording Producer
℗ 1988 Contemporary Records
Sam M. Lewis, ComposerLyricist - Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shelly Manne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Leroy Vinnegar, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Joe Young, ComposerLyricist - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Jean Schwartz, ComposerLyricist - Hampton Hawes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 Fantasy, Inc.
Barney Kessel, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Shelly Manne, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Leroy Vinnegar, Double Bass, AssociatedPerformer - Nancy Hamilton, Author - Sonny Rollins, MainArtist - Morgan Lewis, Composer - Hampton Hawes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1959 Fantasy, Inc.
Albumbeschreibung
Picking up only ten days after Fantasy's Complete Prestige Recordings box leaves off, these five discs run through one of Rollins' most fertile (some insist, the most fertile) periods. Not only are Rollins' Riverside and Contemporary sessions as a leader and sideman collected in toto; Fantasy also includes three tracks recorded for Period in 1957, which can finally be heard within the context of Rollins' late-'50s hot streak. The box kicks off at the end of 1956 with almost all of Thelonious Monk's Brilliant Corners album, where Rollins alternates with alto saxophonist Ernie Henry. Then comes a quantum leap in inspiration, Way Out West, which is just bursting with invention and wry humor as well as cyclical references to previously played tunes; it relies only upon bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne for support without needing anything more. Four tracks from Kenny Dorham's Jazz Contrasts find Rollins taking a subdued or conventionally frenetic bop backseat, while The Sound of Sonny approaches Way Out West's level as Rollins operates with piano trio backing and alone. Sonny appears only in flashes on Abbey Lincoln's sometimes melodramatic That's Him. Following the Period tracks, where Rollins' tone is especially grandiose in the Ben Webster tradition, Rollins, bassist Oscar Petitford, and drummer Max Roach extend themselves astonishingly well through the colossal, nearly 20-minute title track of The Freedom Suite. The odyssey concludes on the West Coast with another great session, the unquenchably swinging Sonny Rollins Meets the Contemporary Leaders -- Rollins' last before his first "retirement" -- where various combinations of sidemen provoke some especially creative playing from Sonny. All previously released alternate takes are included, but there is only one unreleased track -- a rip-roaring alternate of "You" from the Contemporary Leaders sessions -- which will drive Rollins completists entirely mad. If the budget allows, it's worth the splurge.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 5 disc(s) - 58 track(s)
- Total length: 05:56:12
- Main artists: Sonny Rollins
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Riverside
- Genre: Jazz
© 2000 Fantasy, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2000 Fantasy, Inc.
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