Rollins Plays For Bird (mono)

Description

For sale individually and as part of Analogue Productions Prestige Mono Series

Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray
180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings has a flat edge profile and deep groove label, true to the original LP

Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket

As the tenor sax is not in the same key as an alto, Sonny Rollins would have to transpose a lot of music to take a tribute to Charlie Parker to a high level. Instead Rollins has chosen standards associated with Parker, and recorded them within a year after Birds passing.

The music certainly has its moments, as on the inexhaustible 27-minute medley of seven tunes seamlessly stitched together. Rollins plays the melody on alternating songs I Remember You and They Cant Take That Away from Me, Kenny Dorham has at it for My Melancholy Baby and Just Friends, with Wade Legge getting his two cents in on trio only versions of Old Folks and My Little Suede Shoes. Finally the whole band joins in on the ten-minute medley finale Star Eyes. Two independent selections accompany the medley: Rollins does the ballad Ive Grown Accustomed to Your (Her) Face, from the musical My Fair Lady and the horns finally play together for the nearly 12-minute cool waltz Kids Know.

Originally released in 1956

Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone
Wade Legge, piano
George Morrow, bass
Max Roach, drums
Kenny Dorham, trumpet