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Sonny Rollins Quintet, Kenny Dorham, Max Roach – Rollins Plays For Bird (180g, Mono, Analogue Productions)

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  • Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray

    180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings

    Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket


    As the tenor sax is not in the same key as an alto, Sonny Rollins would have to transpose a lot of music to take a tribute to Charlie Parker to a high level. Instead Rollins has chosen standards associated with Parker, and recorded them within a year after Bird’s passing.

    The music certainly has its moments, as on the inexhaustible 27-minute medley of seven tunes seamlessly stitched together. Rollins plays the melody on alternating songs "I Remember You" and "They Can’t Take That Away from Me," Kenny Dorham has at it for "My Melancholy Baby" and "Just Friends," with Wade Legge getting his two cents in on trio only versions of "Old Folks" and "My Little Suede Shoes." Finally the whole band joins in on the ten-minute medley finale "Star Eyes." Two independent selections accompany the medley: Rollins does the ballad "I’ve Grown Accustomed to Your (Her) Face," from the musical "My Fair Lady" and the horns finally play together for the nearly 12-minute cool waltz "Kids Know."

    Originally released in 1956

    Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone

    Wade Legge, piano

    George Morrow, bass

    Max Roach, drums

    Kenny Dorham, trumpet 


  • Artist: Kenny Dorham, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins Quintet
    Label: Analogue Productions, Prestige
    Format: LP
    Units: 1
    Country: US
    Genre: Jazz
    Style: Hard Bop
  • Medley
    A1 I Remember You
    A2 My Melancholy Baby
    A3 Old Folks
    A4 They Can'T Take That Away From Me
    A5 Just Friends
    A6 My Little Suede Shoes
    A7 Star Eyes
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    B1 Kids Know
    B2 I'Ve Grown Accustomed To Your Face