Sonny Rollins on Impulse!

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Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1965 [1]
RecordedJuly 8, 1965
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Genre Jazz
Length34:17
Label Impulse!
Producer Bob Thiele
Sonny Rollins chronology
There Will Never Be Another You
(1965)
Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
(1965)
Alfie
(1965)

Sonny Rollins on Impulse! is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his first to be released on the Impulse! label, featuring performances by Rollins with Ray Bryant, Walter Booker and Mickey Roker. [2]

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Reception

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The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states: "This date is significant for the manner in which Rollins attacks five standards with a quartet.... Sonny Rollins on Impulse! feels as if it were a recording Rollins had to get out of his system. But thank goodness for us because it's a winner through and through." [3]

Track listing

  1. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronislaw Kaper, Ned Washington) – 7:10
  2. "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 11:14
  3. "Hold 'Em Joe" (Harry Thomas) – 5:30
  4. "The Blue Room" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:44
  5. "Three Little Words" (Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby) – 6:56

Personnel

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References

  1. "Billboard". August 7, 1965.
  2. Sonny Rollins discography, accessed October 2, 2009.
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. "Sonny Rollins on Impulse! > Review". Allmusic . Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  4. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 171. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1234. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.