Sonny Rollins (Road Shows)--favorite tracks

[Milestones]

Dmitry, you are outnumbered and outgunned.   

[Dmitry]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

And let's not forget Norton Budlite, Ryan Boulachilli, Pam Wham, and Filadaeus Moclephony.

...while you could've been doing something productive. Like wood-shedding on a bridge nearby.

3 hours ago, Milestones said:

Dmitry, you are outnumbered and outgunned.   

Not so fast, cowboy. 

[JSngry]

Don't forget Saxophone Colostomy, the group of 29 high school saxophonists (of all creeds, colors, and orientations) who play Rollins solos (but only those from the 1950s, they've had all the others scientifically verified as unmusical by The National Bureau Of Standards, Waits, & Measures, so you know they got it right) transcribed for neutered parakeets & pitch-neutral piano, and who play so everything perfectly that their metronome beeps in perfect four-part unison! Best of all - as Legal Minors, they work for free, so anybody can afford them! Nobody feels cheated, therefore everybody is happy, of such things are Golden Ages born!

[CJ Shearn]

I quite like the meeting with Ornette on Volume 2, still gotta pick up 2 3 and 4, and hear the latter for the first time.  I bought Volume 1 when it came out.

[Gheorghe]

oh yes, that discussion whether Rollins was better when he did his BlueNotes, Prestige and the last achievement that would be worth listenin to might be "the Bridge".....I know that. Heard it so often.

But one nice aspect about it:

It was about 2000 and I was together with my wife and someone involved me into a discussion about music and musicians, I mentioned something about Rollins who just at that time was "in town"....., and that guy gives me that kind of look and says "I don´t like what Rollins has done since 1975" and turned away like if I had some disease and gone he was.

My wife who didn´t know much about jazz thought "1975" well thats so long ago, that´s really history, that´s when the wheel was invented...... and she  asked me "what ????? from 1975 on ???? 

She thought if you say you don´t like what somebody has done from ´75 on, you might better say you don´t like it at all cause who knows what was b e f o r e 1975 (smile)

Today, when I mention "Sonny Rollins" she still laughs and says "oh yeah, I know, the guy who lost it after .....what was the year........ 1 9 7 5 .....

[erwbol]

I thought I'd give volume 4 a chance through the internet after reading this discussion last night. Though I like volume 3 (I have it on CD), I thought Holding the Stage contains some pathetic stuff.

[Dmitry]

Infomercial for Vol.4. Sensuous, sultry, tempting, naughty.

http://sonnyrollins.com/project/road-shows-vol-4-holding-the-stage/

Is it saxOphonist, or saxophOnist? I've always pronounced the latter.

[Milestones]

Pathetic???

[JSngry]

Sometimes the experience of time not standing still causes the impression of spatial discombobulation.

[Mark Stryker]

Seems appropriate to point out here that this was recorded 51 years ago today:

 

 

[Milestones]

Alfie--one of the finest soundtracks ever.

And if one were to preserve only one Michael Caine performance, it would probably be this one. 

[erwbol]

On 1/26/2017 at 4:32 PM, Milestones said:

Pathetic???

It's my opinion. All you assholes seem to have one. 

[skeith]

I generally agree with those on this thread who think Road Shows Vol. 4 is an excellent Rollins album and perhaps the best of the Road Shows series.

BUT I do think the second track on Vol. 4 "Professor Paul" is very weak and subpar Rollins.

One more thing - the track "Disco Monk" ....I don't know about you but just the title for me is cringe-worthy and while Rollins has a number of Monk quotes in his solo....the "head" of the tune seems to me to have little to do with disco or Monk....but I like the track....just wish it had a different title.

 

[Milestones]

Yes, what a weird title, as well as cringe-worthy.