Our Man in Jazz

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Our Man in Jazz
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Live album by
ReleasedDecember 1962 [1]
RecordedJuly 27–30, 1962
February 20, 1963 Bonus tracks
Venue The Village Gate, New York City
Genre Jazz
Label RCA Victor
Producer George Avakian, Bob Prince
Sonny Rollins chronology
What's New?
(1962)
Our Man in Jazz
(1962)
Sonny Meets Hawk!
(1963)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Down Beat
(Original Lp release)
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Our Man in Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released by RCA Victor featuring July 1962 performances by Rollins with Don Cherry, Bob Cranshaw, and Billy Higgins. [5] These performances have been described as contrasting from Rollins' previous style by moving to "very long free-form fancies, swaggering and impetuous". [6]

Contents

The CD reissue supplements the original LP's three tracks with three tracks recorded in February of the following year, with Henry Grimes replacing Cranshaw on bass. These recordings originally appeared on 3 in Jazz (an LP also featuring performances by Gary Burton and Clark Terry).

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated
  1. "Oleo" – 25:26
  2. "Dearly Beloved" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) – 8:17
  3. "Doxy" – 15:17
  4. "You Are My Lucky Star" (Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed) – 3:46 Bonus track on CD rerelease
  5. "I Could Write a Book" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:16 Bonus track on CD rerelease
  6. "There Will Never Be Another You" (Mack Gordon, Harry Warren) – 5:43 Bonus track on CD rerelease

Personnel

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References

  1. Billboard January 12, 1963
  2. Down Beat: March 28, 1963 vol. 30, no. 8
  3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1234. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. Watson, Jimmy (1 June 1963). "Sonny Rollins: Our Man in Jazz" (PDF). New Record Mirror . No. 116. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. Sonny Rollins discography accessed 2 October 2009
  6. Litweiler, John (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. Da Capo. p. 127. ISBN   0-306-80377-1.