Tour de Force (Sonny Rollins album)

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Released 1957 Tour de Force(1956) Sonny Boy(1956) Release date 1957 Label Universal Music LLC		Length 41:40 Artist Sonny Rollins Producer Bob Weinstock Genre Jazz

Recorded December 7, 1956Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey Similar Sonny Boy, Don't Ask, Work Time, The Way I Feel, Dancing in the Dark

Sonny rollins tour de force

Tour de Force is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins featuring his final recordings for the Prestige label performed by Rollins with Kenny Drew, George Morrow, and Max Roach with vocals by Earl Coleman on two tracks.

Sonny rollins tour de force

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Rollins was in consistently creative form during this prime period but the overall set is not as classic as most of the tenor's other recordings from the 1950s." The Penguin Guide to Jazz gives the album four stars out of four and describes is as being "almost as good as Colossus, with the ferocious abstractions of 'B Swift' and 'B Quick' contrasting with the methodical, almost surgical destruction of 'Sonny Boy'."

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

"Ee-Ah" - 6:52
"B. Quick" - 9:13
"Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 7:37
"B. Swift" - 5:15
"My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) - 4:21
"Sonny Boy" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Al Jolson) - 8:22 Bonus track on CD rerelease