Label / Distributor: Original Jazz Classics / New Note/Pinnacle
Engineer: Richard Corsello
Producer: Sonny Rollins
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 90204703586
SPAR code: AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Bobby Hutcherson (vibraphone); Bobby Broom (electric guitar); Bob Cranshaw (electric bass); Tony Williams (drums).
Advantages: Sublime music and musicianship Disadvantages: None
...This is the original score to the 60s film Alfie, composed and played by SonnyRollins, one of the greatest tenor sax players. I watched this film several times before really appreciating the score, being so intent on the story and film locations, and later checked yes, it was Rollins playing, and he also wrote it.
WHO IS SONNYROLLINS?
If you like jazz you don't need me to provide a biog. Sonny [Theodore Walter] Rollins was born in 1930 in New York, arguably one of the best jazz tenor saxophonists of all time. He was already playing with one of the greats, Thelonious Monk before he was 20, and later performed and recorded with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey. In 1955 he joined the Clifford Brown / Max Roach quintet. He was known for his improvisations, sometimes highly imaginative takes on relatively moribund...
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Advantages: Quality tunes Disadvantages: Your stereo wont be loud enough to hear it at the volume you want
...This album is simply one of the best i have ever heard. It's got the well known songs that non rock appreciators would recognise such as: take a look around, my generation and of course rollin'. Crunchin riffs and hip hop beats make this album on the cutting edge of music for teenagers, and in fact everybody. Even my mum walks around singin," Rollin' rollin' rollin' rollin'...". Although annoying it is funny.
I've got all limp bizkit albums, and in my oppinion this album comes a very close secon to significant other. But that album is superb.
With the likes Of X, DMX and method man featuring on it it combines the relaxedness of rap with the get up and go of rock.
All in all this album is sweet....
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Advantages: good listening and I will never become bored of it Disadvantages: bad language
...This is a great album. I think this is an album for everybody who likes rock music, it contains good, rythmic and grasping tunes. I think the best song on the album is My generation because it talks about the generationss gone by and the new generations coming up. One down point of this album is the track Hotdog only because it has explict lyrics in just about every line, but i suppose that is what makes the album what it is.
My rating out of 10 - 9.5/10!
ROLLINROLLINROLLIN!...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
somewhat helpful 10.02.2001
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