Released December 1957 Dial "S" for Sonny
(1957) Sonny's Crib
(1957) Release date 1957 Label Blue Note Records | Length 40:55 Artist Sonny Clark Producer Alfred Lion Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded July 21, 1957
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack Similar Sonny Clark albums, Jazz albums | ||
Dial "S" for Sonny is the debut album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Clark with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Hank Mobley, Wilbur Ware, and Louis Hayes.
Contents
Reception
Critic John S. Wilson, in a contemporaneous review, remarked negatively that "Art Farmer contributes some crackling solos to Dial S for Sonny, [...] but he has to fight a chomp-chomp rhythm section". The album was awarded 3 stars by Stephen Thomas Erlewine in an Allmusic review which stated: "Dial "S" for Sonny, Sonny Clark's first session for Blue Note Records and his first session as a leader, is a terrific set of laidback bop, highlighted by Clark's liquid, swinging solos... Clark steals the show in this set of fine, straight-ahead bop."
Track listing
All compositions by Sonny Clark except as indicated- "Dial "S" for Sonny" - 7:26
- "Bootin' It" - 5:17
- "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) - 6:59
- "Sonny's Mood" - 8:38
- "Shoutin' on a Riff" - 6:45
- "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 5:50
- "Bootin' It" [Alternate Take] - 5:15 Bonus track on CD
Personnel
Production
Songs
1Dial "S" for Sonny7:21
2Bootin' It5:13
3It Could Happen to You6:59