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Sunny Days, Starry Nights

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Released
  
1984

Length
  
38:57

Artist
  
Sonny Rollins

Producer
  
Lucille Rollins

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
January 23–27, 1984

Sunny Days, Starry Nights (1984)
  
The Solo Album (1985)

Release date
  
1984

Label
  
Milestone Records

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Similar
  
Sonny Rollins albums, Jazz albums

Sunny Days, Starry Nights is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1984, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Russell Blake and Tommy Campbell.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Sunny Days, Starry Nights as usual finds the great tenor at his best on the two ballads ('I'm Old Fashioned' and Noel Coward's 'I'll See You Again') while the other four originals have been largely forgotten." Music critic Robert Christgau called the album "His most accessible and uncompromised album in more than a decade is soaked in the swinging pan-Caribbean 'calypso' that's been his special pleasure since the '50s..."

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated
  1. "Mava Mava" - 4:34
  2. "I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 6:28
  3. "Wynton" - 8:20
  4. "Tell Me You Love Me" - 6:16
  5. "I'll See You Again" (Noël Coward) - 6:21
  6. "Kilauea" - 6:59
  • Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, on January 23–27, 1984

    • Personnel

  • Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone
  • Clifton Anderson: trombone
  • Mark Soskin: piano, electric piano, celesta, synthesizer
  • Russell Blake: electric bass
  • Tommy Campbell: drums
  • Lucille Rollins: cowbell (tracks 1 & 6)

    • Songs

    1Mava Mava4:34
    2I'm Old Fashioned6:28
    3Wynton8:20

    References

    Sunny Days, Starry Nights Wikipedia
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