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Don't Stop the Carnival (Sonny Rollins album)

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Released
  
1978

Don't Stop the Carnival (1978)
  
Don't Ask (1979)

Release date
  
1978

Label
  
Milestone Records

Recorded
  
April 13–15, 1978

Artist
  
Sonny Rollins

Producer
  
Orrin Keepnews

Genre
  
Jazz

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Sonny Rollins albums, Jazz albums

Don't Stop the Carnival is a live album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded at the Great American Music Hall and released on the Milestone label in 1978, featuring performances by Rollins with Mark Soskin, Aurell Ray, Jerome Harris and Tony Williams with Donald Byrd joining on five tracks.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow wrote that the "versions of 'Don't Stop the Carnival' and 'Autumn Nocturne' are memorable but most of the rest of the set, although spirited, is a bit lightweight". Music critic Robert Christgau wrote "the meat of the album is sustaining if not exquisite, jazz food that anyone can digest."

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated
  1. "Don't Stop the Carnival" (Traditional) - 8:46
  2. "Silver City" - 8:08
  3. "Autumn Nocturne" (Kim Gannon, Josef Myrow) - 6:36
  4. "Camel" - 4:14
  5. "Introducing the Performers" - 1:01
  6. "Nobody Else But Me" - (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 6:57
  7. "Non-Cents" - Toney 9:25
  8. "A Child's Prayer" (Donald Byrd) - 8:05
  9. "President Hayes" (Byrd) - 9:49
  10. "Sais" (James Mtume) - 7:55
  • Recorded at the Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA, April 13, 14 & 15, 1978

    • Personnel

  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
  • Mark Soskin – piano, electric piano
  • Aurell Ray – electric guitar
  • Jerome Harris – electric bass
  • Tony Williams – drums
  • Donald Byrd – trumpet, flugelhorn (tracks 5-9)

    • Songs

    1Don't Stop the Carnival8:46
    2Silver City8:08
    3Autumn Nocturne6:36

    References

    Don't Stop the Carnival (Sonny Rollins album) Wikipedia
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