Prestige – PRLP 7126Rec. Date : December 7, 1956 Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Kenny DrewVocal : Earl Coleman Listening to Prestige : #196Stream this Album Billboard : 02/24/1958Three stars This album is truly a tour de force for Sonny Rollins. He gets a chance on almost every…
EmArcy – MG 36108Rec. Dates : October 12, 1956, March 18, 1957, March 20, 1957, March 21, 1957Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Ray Bryant, Bill WallaceTenor Sax : Sonny RollinsTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Billboard : 10/14/1957Spotlight on… selection New idea in jazz sets has all the selections in waltz tempos. This in no way limits Roach from…
EmArcy – MG 36098Rec. Dates : September 17, 1956, September 19, 1956Stream this Album Drums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Ray BryantTenor Sax : Sonny RollinsTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Audio : July, 1957Charles A. Robertson This is the first record made by the Max Roach Quintet since the tragic deaths in an automobile accident last summer of Clifford Brown and Richie Powell,…
EmArcy – MG 36070Rec. Date : January 4, 1956 Stream this Album Trumpet : Clifford BrownDrums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Richie PowellTenor Sax : Sonny Rollins Billboard : 08/11/1956Spotlight on… selection The erstwhile team has made the best-selling list before, and this new issue could be the best of all their disk…
EmArcy – MG 36008Rec. Dates : August 2-6, 1954 Stream this Album Trumpet : Clifford BrownDrums : Max RoachBass : George MorrowPiano : Richie PowellTenor Sax : Harold Land Featured LinksFull Vinyl VideoBlueNote33RPM Minneapolis Spokesman (Minneapolis, MN)J. Henry Randall : 06/24/1955 New albums in the modern vein occupied our attention this week, and we hasten…
Prestige – PRLP 7095Rec. Date : October 5, 1956 Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Wade LeggeTrumpet : Kenny Dorham Listening to Prestige : #189Stream this Album Billboard : 08/12/1957Score of 77 A substantial set featuring a seven-selection tribute medley to late “Bird” Parker, provocatively handled by Rollins and emphatic colleagues (rest of review is missing) ----- Cash…
Prestige – PRLP 7038Rec. Date : March 22, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Richie PowellTrumpet : Clifford Brown Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #167March 22, 1956Full Vinyl VideoBlueNote33RPM Billboard : 08/25/1956Score of 80 Altho Rollins gets top billing here (for contractual reasons) this is…
Prestige – PRLP 7020Rec. Date : December 2, 1955 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : George MorrowDrums : Max RoachPiano : Ray Bryant Featured LinksListening to Prestige : #159December 2, 1955 Billboard : 04/07/1956Score of 76 Some facets of Rollins’ work have never been brought out adequately until this issue. There are…
