Old Flames

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Old Flames
Old Flames (Sonny Rollins) coverart.jpg
Studio album by
Released1993
RecordedJuly–August 1993
Genre Jazz
Length55:17
Label Milestone
Producer Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins chronology
Here's to the People
(1991)
Old Flames
(1993)
Sonny Rollins + 3
(1995)

Old Flames is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1993, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw and Jack DeJohnette with Jon Faddis, Byron Stripling, Alex Brofsky and Bob Stewart added on two tracks which were arranged by Jimmy Heath. [1]

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The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "Comfortable and occasionally passionate music by one of the classic tenor-saxophonists". [2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated
  1. "Darn That Dream" (Eddie DeLange, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 6:56
  2. "Where or When" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 8:09
  3. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) – 7:15
  4. "Times Slimes" – 6:58
  5. "I See Your Face Before Me" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 9:41
  6. "Delia" (Franz Lehár) – 9:48
  7. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington, Irving Gordon, Irving Mills) – 7:18
  • Recorded in NY on July–August, 1993

Personnel

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References

  1. Sonny Rollins discography Retrieved September 21, 2009
  2. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Old Flames > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1236. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.