Ballads
Sonny Rollins - CD
- Artist: Sonny Rollins
- Year: 2002
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724353756222
- Item Number: EMI375622
- Release date: 03/26/2002
- 1. I Can't Get Started [Live]
- 2. Poor Butterfly
- 3. Reflections
- 4. Namely You
- 5. How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
- 6. Decision
- 7. Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise [Alternate Take][Live]
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Ballads by Sonny Rollins on CD
Blue Note has done an admirable job of collecting the mellow material of a number of classic players for its Ballads series. Sonny Rollins' entry, like the others, finds the tenor in a late-night mood. The disc begins and ends with intimate trios offering fine renditions of "I Can't Get Started" and "Softly As in a Morning Sunrise," both featuring bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Elvin Jones. The openness of these two live recordings allows Rollins plenty of room to search and discover the right notes. There's a seven-minute version of Thelonious Monk's "Reflections" with Monk himself sitting in, and an adventurous take on "Decision" with trumpeter Donald Byrd, pianist Wynton Kelly, and drummer Max Roach. Certain choices, like "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" from Finian's Rainbow, also show Rollins' willingness to search outside of the jazz world for good material. It's difficult not to notice, when reading over the credits, other notable names on this disc. J.J. Johnson, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, and Paul Chambers help out on "Poor Butterfly," while Philly Joe Jones and Doug Watkins join in on "Namely You." Ballads is a good collection of Rollins' mid-'50s work and provides a good place to compare his technique in a number of different settings. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr., Rovi
- Artist: Sonny Rollins
- Year: 2002
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 724353756222
- Item Number: EMI375622
- Release date: 03/26/2002
- Label: Blue Note
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Saxophone Jazz
- Album Time: 42:10
- 3 in 1
- A Night at the Village Vanguard [Complete]
- A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1
- A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 [Japan]
- A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 [Japan]
- A Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2
- Alfie
- Alfie
- Alfie
- Alfie
- Alfie [2004 Original Soundtrack]
- Ballads
- Best of Sonny Rollins [BMG]
- Celebrating Sonny at 75/The Very Best of the RCA Years (Import)
- Complete: Night at the Village Vanguard
- Contemporary Leaders
- Contemporary Leaders [Bonus Tracks]
- Contemporary Leaders [Bonus Tracks]
- Dancing in the Dark
- Don't Ask
- Don't Ask
- Don't Stop the Carnival
- Don't Stop the Carnival
- Don't Stop the Carnival [BMG]
- East Broadway Run Down
- East Broadway Run Down
- Easy Living
- Easy Living
- Falling in Love with Jazz
- Freedom Suite
- Freedom Suite [Bonus Tracks]
- G-Man
- G-Man
- G-Man
- Global Warming
- Global Warming
- Great Sessions
- Greatest Hits
- Here's to the People
- Here's to the People (Import)
- Horn Culture
- Horn Culture
- In Japan
- Ken Burns Jazz
- Les Incontournables
- Live in London, Vol. 2 (Import)
- Love at First Sight (Import)
- Milestone Profiles [Milestone]
- Modern Jazz Giants
- Modern Jazz Giants
- Moving Out
- Moving Out
- Moving Out
- Newk's Time
- Newk's Time
- Newk's Time
- Next Album
- No Problem
- No Problem (Import)
- Now's the Time
- Now's the Time
- Nucleus
- Nucleus (Import)
- Old Flames
- On Impulse!
- On Impulse!
- Our Man in Jazz
- Plays for Bird
- Prestige Profiles, Vol. 3
- Real Crazy-Young Sonny: 1949-51
- Reel Life
- Reel Life
- Road Shows, Vol. 1
- Road Shows, Vol. 1 [Japan]
- Rollins Plays for Bird
- Rollins Plays for Bird [Bonus Track]
- Rollins Plays for Bird [Bonus Track]
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus
- Saxophone Colossus [Bonus Track]
- Saxophone Colossus [Import Bonus Tracks]
- Soneymoon
- Sonny Rollins [Prestige]
- Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
- Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
- Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
- Sonny Rollins Plus 4
- Sonny Rollins Plus 4 [RVG Remasters]
- Sonny Rollins Plus Four
- Sonny Rollins Plus Four [Mobile Fidelity]
- Sonny Rollins Plus Three
- Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet [20-Bit Remastered]
- Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet [20-Bit Remastered]
- Sonny Rollins' Finest Hour
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
- Sound of Sonny [2007 Bonus Track]
- Sunny Days, Starry Nights
- Swingin' for Bumsy
- Tenor Titan
- The Best of the Complete RCA Victor Recordings
- The Bridge
- The Bridge
- The Complete Prestige Recordings
- The Cutting Edge
- The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside and Contemporary Recordings
- The Impulse Story
- The Solo Album
- The Sound of Sonny
- The Sound of Sonny [2004 SACD]
- The Standard Sonny Rollins
- The Standard Sonny Rollins
- The Standard Sonny Rollins [BMG International]
- The Very Best
- The Way I Feel
- Then and Now
- There Will Never Be Another You
- This Is What I Do
- This Is What I Do
- Way Out West (Import)
- Way Out West [Japan 2003]
- Way Out West [Japan 2003]
- Way Out West [Japan 2006]
- Way Out West [Japan 2006]
- What's New?
- What's New?
- Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert
- Work Time
- Work Time
- Work Time
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