Sonny Rollins Plus 4 by Sonny Rollins.
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Tracks:
Valse Hot
Kiss and Run
I Feel a Song Coming On
Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)
Pent-Up House

Performer Notes:

  • Personnel: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Clifford Brown (trumpet); Richie Powell (piano); George Morrow (bass); Max Roach (drums).
  • Recorded in New York, New York on March 22, 1956. Originally released on Prestige (7038). Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler.
  • Personnel: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Clifford Brown (trumpet);
  • Richie Powell (piano); George Morrow (bass); Max Roach (drums).
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Hackensack, New Jersey on March 22, 1956. Originally released on Prestige (7038-2). Includes liner notes by Ira Gitler.
  • All tracks have been digitally remastered.
  • 1956, Sonny Rollins was spiritually and physically rejuvenated. And on Sonny Rollins Plus 4, he's clearly inspired by Max Roach and Clifford Brown's depth of spirit. Multi-dimensional re-arrangements of popular songs were a Brown-Roach trademark. "Kiss and Run" is treated to a stop-and-go intro, then settles into a brisk 4/4, as Rollins, Brown, and the perennially underrated Richie Powell fashion long dancing lines. "I Feel a Song Coming On" creates tension by alternating a vamp figure with a swinging release. Rollins takes an immense solo, contrasting chanting figures and foghorn-like long tones with Parker-ish elisions, and Brown answers with buzzing figures and daring harmonic extensions. Then Roach takes things out with sweeping melodic choruses and polyrhythmic fanfares, setting the stage for a torrid tenor-trumpet duel. On "Valse Hot," there's an early example of a successful jazz waltz as Rollins offers up one of his most charming themes. Max Roach treats the European three with the dancing elan of an American four, and Rollins responds by floating in between the beat, syncopating in Monk-ish stabs and thrusts, as Brown answers with the kind of rhythmically complex, sweetly articulated melodic lines that have inspired every modern trumpeter.

Professional Reviews: Down Beat - 4.5 Stars - Very Good Plus - "...Rollins [plays] the most sustainedly creative tenor I've heard on record by him before. Very much recommended..."

Format: Vinyl (1 Disc)

Country: USA

Studio/Live: Studio

Guest Artist: Clifford Brown; Max Roach

Release Date: 4 February, 2014

Label: Fantasy

Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5 x 0.3 centimeters (0.23 kg)


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