Monday, October 3, 2016

Sonny Rollins


































Artist:  Sonny Rollins
Birth Name:  Walter Theodore Rollins
Born:  September 7, 1930.  New York City, New York, USA
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Saxophone Jazz
Occupation:  Musician, Composer
Instruments:  Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone

Sonny Rollins is an American Jazz Tenor Saxophonist.  He is one of the most important and influential Jazz Musicians.  He has recorded at least 60 Albums as leader and a number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become Jazz Standards.














Title:  Volume 2  (1999)
Genre:  Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Jazz Instrument, Mainstream Jazz, Saxophone Jazz
Label:  Blue Note Records
Rating:   *****

Tracks:

 1.  Why Don't I  (5:45)
 2.  Wall March  (6:11)
 3.  Misterioso  (9:24)
 4.  Reflections  (7:03)
 5.  You Stepped Out Of A Dream  (6:25)
 6.  Poor Butterfly  (6:06)

Personnel:

Sonny Rollins:  Tenor Saxophone
Jay Jay Johnson:  Trombone on Tracks:  1-3, 5-6
Horace Silver:  Piano on Tracks:  1-3, 5-6
Thelonious Monk:  Piano on Tracks: 3, 4
Paul Chambers:  Bass
Art Blakey:  Drums

Volume 2 is the tenth studio album by Sonny Rollins, originally released in 1957 by Blue Note Records, remastered and reissued on March 9, 1999 by Blue Note Records, featuring Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Paul Chambers and Jay Jay Johnson.

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