Description
Sonny Rollins, WAY OUT WEST, 180 GRAM BLUE COLORED VINYL LP LTD (IMPORT)
PERSONNEL:
SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophone
RAY BROWN, bass
SHELLY MANNE, drums
Los Angeles, March 7, 1957.
SIDE A:
1 I’M AN OLD COWHAND (Johnny Mercer) 5:42
2 SOLITUDE (Ellington-De Lange-Mills) 7:51
3 COME, GONE (Sonny Rollins) 7:52
SIDE B:
1 WAGON WHEELS (De Rose-Hills) 10:10
2 THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE (Jones-Symes) 5:17
3 WAY OUT WEST (Sonny Rollins) 6:30
Down Beat original review
“This album offers an unequalled opportunity on record to hear Rollins’ tenor almost isolated from any other instrument. It is exceptionally well recorded, there is no piano, Manne’s drums never intrude, and Brown in many places plays an obligato accompaniment.”
“This album offers an unequalled opportunity on record to hear Rollins’ tenor almost isolated from any other instrument. It is exceptionally well recorded, there is no piano, Manne’s drums never intrude, and Brown in many places plays an obligato accompaniment.”
