The Complete Prestige Recordings

Sonny Rollins

7PRCD-4407-2

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RELEASE DATE: 16 Jul 1992

7PRCD-4407-2

LABEL: PRESTIGE

GENRE: JAZZ

Sonny Rollins first recorded for Prestige as a teenaged sideman on a 1949 J.J. Johnson session. Seven and a half years later he made his eighteenth and final session for the label. In the intervening period, the promising but uncertain young tenor player from Harlem had matured into a full-toned and powerful artist who was already beginning to be recognized as one of the truly great improvisers in the entire history of jazz.

These seven very full compact discs–offering a total of 90 selections and totaling almost 490 minutes of music–show the rapidly developing young saxophonist as a sideman with his close friends Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, as well as with J.J. Johnson and Art Farmer, and as a leader on ten sessions that feature such jazz immortals as Monk, Max Roach, the legendary Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Tommy Flanagan, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, John Lewis, Milt Jackson, and many others. The many highlights of this collection include the only recorded encounter between Rollins and John Coltrane, and the pivotal Saxophone Colossus album.

Produced by ORRIN KEEPNEWS


TRACKLISTING

DISC ONE

  • 1. Elysee
  • 2. Opus V
  • 3. Hilo
  • 4. Fox Hunt
  • 5. Morpheus
  • 6. Down
  • 7. Blue Room (Take 1)
  • 8. Whispering
  • 9. I Know
  • 10. Conception
  • 11. Out Of The Blue
  • 12. Denial
  • 13. Bluing
  • 14. Dig
  • 15. My Old Flame
  • 16. It's Only A Paper Moon

DISC TWO

  • 1. Time On My Hands
  • 2. Mambo Bounce
  • 3. This Love Of Mine
  • 4. Shadrack
  • 5. On A Slow Boat To China
  • 6. With A Song In My Heart
  • 7. Scoops
  • 8. Newk's Fadeaway
  • 9. Compulsion
  • 10. The Serpent's Tooth (Take 1)
  • 11. The Serpent's Tooth (Take 2)
  • 12. 'Round About Midnight
  • 13. In A Sentimental Mood
  • 14. The Stopper
  • 15. Almost Like Being In Love
  • 16. No Moe
  • 17. Think Of One (Take 1)
  • 18. Think Of One (Take 2)

DISC THREE

  • 1. Let's Call This
  • 2. Friday The 13th
  • 3. Soft Shoe
  • 4. Confab In Tempo
  • 5. I'll Take Romance
  • 6. Airegin
  • 7. Oleo
  • 8. But Not For Me (Take 1)
  • 9. But Not For Me (Take 2)
  • 10. Doxy
  • 11. Movin' Out
  • 12. Swingin' For Bumsy
  • 13. Silk 'n' Satin
  • 14. Solid

DISC FOUR

  • 1. I Want To Be Happy
  • 2. The Way You Look Tonight
  • 3. More Than You Know
  • 4. There's No Business Like Show Business
  • 5. Paradox
  • 6. Raincheck
  • 7. There Are Such Things
  • 8. It's All Right With Me
  • 9. In Your Own Sweet Way
  • 10. No Line
  • 11. Vierd Blues

DISC FIVE

  • 1. I Feel A Song Comin' On
  • 2. Pent-Up House
  • 3. Valse Hot
  • 4. Kiss And Run
  • 5. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep
  • 6. My Reverie
  • 7. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World
  • 8. Paul's Pal
  • 9. When Your Lover Has Gone
  • 10. Tenor Madness

DISC SIX

  • 1. You Don't Know What Love Is
  • 2. St. Thomas
  • 3. Strode Rode
  • 4. Blue 7
  • 5. Moritat
  • 6. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
  • 7. Kids Know
  • 8. The House I Live In

DISC SEVEN

  • 1. The Bird Medley: I Remember You
  • 2. The Bird Medley: My Melancholy Baby
  • 3. The Bird Medley: Old Folks
  • 4. The Bird Medley: They Can't Take That Away From Me
  • 5. The Bird Medley: Just Friends
  • 6. The Bird Medley: My Little Suede Shoes
  • 7. The Bird Medley: Star Eyes
  • 8. B. Swift
  • 9. My Ideal
  • 10. Sonny Boy
  • 11. Two Different Worlds
  • 12. Ee-ah
  • 13. B. Quick

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