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Sonny Boy (album)

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Released
  
1961

Length
  
39:01

Producer
  
Bob Weinstock

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
Prestige PR 7207

Recorded
  
October 5 and December 7, 1956 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Sonny Boy is a 1961 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins comprising four tracks from his final recordings for the Prestige label, three of which were originally released on Tour de Force, along with an unissued performance from the session that produced Rollins Plays for Bird.

Contents

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

  1. "Ee-Ah" - 6:52
  2. "B. Quick" - 9:13
  3. "B. Swift" - 5:15
  4. "The House I Live In" (Lewis Allan, Earl Robinson) - 9:21
  5. "Sonny Boy" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Al Jolson) - 8:22
  • Recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on October 5 (track 4) and December 7 (tracks 1-3 & 5), 1956

    • Personnel

  • Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
  • Kenny Dorham - trumpet (track 4)
  • Kenny Drew (tracks 1-3 & 5), Wade Legge (track 4) - piano
  • George Morrow - bass
  • Max Roach - drums

    • References

    Sonny Boy (album) Wikipedia
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