Don't Stop the Carnival (Sonny Rollins album)

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Don't Stop the Carnival
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Live album by
Sonny Rollins
Released1978
RecordedApril 13–15, 1978
Genre Jazz
Label Milestone
Producer Orrin Keepnews
Sonny Rollins chronology
Easy Living
(1977)		Don't Stop the Carnival
(1978)		 Don't Ask
(1979)

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. [1]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Christgau's Record Guide A− [3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

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". [2] Music critic Robert Christgau wrote that "the meat of the album is sustaining if not exquisite, jazz food that anyone can digest." [6]

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

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Sonny Rollins discography, accessed September 25, 2009.
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Don't Stop the Carnival > Review". AllMusic . Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  3. ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies . Ticknor & Fields. ISBN   089919026X . Retrieved March 12, 2019– via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1234. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 172. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  6. ↑ Christgau, Robert. "Don't Stop the Carnival > Review". Robert Christgau . Retrieved June 26, 2011.
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