SONNY ROLLINS WORKTIME PLUS

That Rollins could overcome these circumstances testifies to a strength of character equal to the strength of his sound and conception. America had only begun to confront the racism that permeated its society, jazz was still trying to make a case for itself as an art form, and the scourge of heroin addiction among young jazz players added another and often insurmountable obstacle to personal growth. While 1956 would also find him making important studio appearances elsewhere-with Clifford Brown/Max Roach and the succeeding Roach quintet on EmArcy, with Thelonious Monk on Riverside, and on the first of his own Blue Note albums-he still turned out the bulk of his performances for Prestige founder/producer Bob Weinstock.ĭespite the music they were creating, these were not the best of times for Rollins or his contemporaries. Over a period of five years, from his first session with Miles Davis through his first 12-inch LP tour de force Work Time, all of Rollins's commercial recording was done for that label. Johnson in 1949, and actually cut his most important session as a teenager three months later (with Bud Powell on Blue Note), the early Fifties found the tenor saxophonist establishing an exclusive base on Prestige. While Rollins had made three prior visits to a recording studio before his New Jazz/Prestige debut with trombonist J.J. As such collections go, it is uncommonly comprehensive. Rollins earned his reputation through the music contained on the present seven compact discs, which can be heard as Acts 1 and 2 in one of the longest (and still-running) sagas in jazz history. I mean it's not every day that we get the likes of Bob Blumenthal and Doug Ramsey visiting the site.

Sonny Rollins' longevity as a performer coupled with the discovery and recent Impulse! release of John Coltrane's Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album prompted a bit of nostalgia centered on the first time I heard both Sonny and Trane perform on a variety of 1950's Prestige LPs, all of which have since been collectively issued on CD in the form of boxed sets by each artist, respectively.Īlthough attenuated by his early death in 1967, Coltrane did make many more recordings for Atlantic and Impulse! and Sonny continued to perform on record for over a half-a-century subsequent to his Prestige albums.Īs an all-in-one-place feature, I thought it would be fun to combine the insert notes from both of these boxed sets and post them as a blog feature. The material is an effective mixture of Rollins playing attitudes with an intriguing original, Pauls Pal, and the mining of unusual material such as My Reverie and The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. And, of course, there is the celebrated title track featuring the two titans to emerge in the Fifties, Rollins and his guest, visiting in the studio that day, John Coltrane.© -Steven Cerra, copyright protected all rights reserved Tenor Madness, in which he was joined by the rhythm section from the Miles Davis Quintet, further substantiated and underlined his rapidly rising stature.

Even the critics who had been slow in recognizing what fellow jazzmen already knew that here was a young giant in our midst could not help see the light.

SONNY ROLLINS WORKTIME PLUS

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