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| | Artist : Sonny Rollins | |
| | Album : Roadshows Volume 1 | |
| | Label : Doxy Records Source : CD | |
| | Cat. No. : UCGF-00193-2 Size : 92.75 MB | |
| ª Genre : Jazz StrDate: 2008-10-28 ª |
ª _ Quality : 171kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2008-11-03 _ ª
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| | The sound of Sonny Rollins is unmistakable. Instantly | |
| | recognizable when he plays just one note, this living legend has | |
| | long stood out in the crowd of tenor players during the | |
| | remarkable six decades he's been recording and playing. | |
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| | Since Rollins took control of his music publishing a few years | |
| | ago, releasing recordings under his own label, Doxy, the | |
| | possibility of hearing some of Rollins' live music was raised. | |
| | Apparently 200 live performances have been recorded since the | |
| | 1980s, and the saxophonist, along with his | |
| | producer/trombonist/nephew Clifton Anderson, has been selecting | |
| | takes to release. Road Shows Vol. 1 is the first, in what | |
| | promises to be a long line of sound documentation to be | |
| | published. | |
| | | |
| | The seven tracks heard here were recorded over three decades | |
| | between 1980 and 2007, what an amounts to an entire career for | |
| | some musicians. The array of players rotates, but the one | |
| | constant here is that Rollins sound. In 1980 Warsaw, Poland, he | |
| | plays "Easy Living," as part of a quintet with pianist Mark | |
| | Soskin. The restraint is evident, with Rollins sticking closely | |
| | to the melody and, as he is legend to do, working and reworking | |
| | it thrillingly. He unleashes a bit more fire on the classic | |
| | "Tenor Madness," made famous in a 1956 recording with the then | |
| | relatively unknown saxophonist John Coltrane. This version, from | |
| | Japan in 2000, bounces and bops with a remarkable vitality of a | |
| | player at least half his age. | |
| | | |
| | The Rollins listening experience includes a calypso, of course, | |
| | and here it is a 2007 performance of "Nice Lady" from Victoria, | |
| | Canada. Long before jam bands, Rollins could hold a crowd's rapt | |
| | attention with his cascades of notes and hypnotic repetition of | |
| | theme. A calypso has always been the perfect format for the | |
| | genuine narcotic of the Rollins sound. | |
| | | |
| | The disc ends with a performance from the much talked-about 50th | |
| | anniversary concert in 2007 at Carnegie Hall with Christian | |
| | McBride and Roy Haynes. Much as he did in 1958, Rollins opens | |
| | with "Some Enchanted Evening," from South Pacific, in this same | |
| | venue with this same drummer. The youngster here was 35-year-old | |
| | bassist Christian McBride. While Rollins has deemed the entire | |
| | concert unworthy of release, these ten minutes are simply | |
| | glorious. Haynes guides the progression with his deft brushwork | |
| | and McBride plays the melody behind Rollins' gentle, sometimes | |
| | whispered notes. | |
| | | |
| | It is often said that Sonny Rollins is best heard live. These few | |
| | samples prove it is so. As the title here indicates, this is only | |
| | the first volume of such performances. Here is hoping there are | |
| | many, many more. | |
| | | |
| | Tracklisting: | |
| | | |
| | 01. Sonny Rollins - Best Wishes 9:26 | |
| | 02. Sonny Rollins - More Than You Know 8:43 | |
| | 03. Sonny Rollins - Blossom 12:27 | |
| | 04. Sonny Rollins - Easy Living 11:03 | |
| | 05. Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness 7:50 | |
| | 06. Sonny Rollins - Nice Lady 12:11 | |
| | 07. Sonny Rollins - Some Enchanted Evening 9:55 | |
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ª _ Total: 01:11:35 _ ª
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