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Sonny Rollins
Original Album Classics
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
1. Without a Song
2. Where Are You?
3. John S.
4. The Bridge
5. God Bless the Child
6. You Do Something to Me
Track Listings (6) - Disc #2
1. Oleo
2. Dearly Beloved
3. Doxy
4. You Are My Lucky Star [*]
5. I Could Write a Book [*]
6. There Will Never Be Another You [*]
Track Listings (6) - Disc #3
1. If Ever I Would Leave You
2. Bluesongo
3. The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
4. Brown Skin Girl
5. Yesterdays [*]
6. Jungoso
Track Listings (9) - Disc #4
1. Yesterdays
2. All the Things You Are
3. Summertime
4. Just Friends
5. Lover Man
6. At McKie's
7. You Are My Lucky Star
8. I Could Write a Book
9. There Will Never Be Another You
Track Listings (13) - Disc #5
1. Autumn Nocturne
2. Night and Day
3. Love Letters
4. My One and Only Love
5. Three Little Words
6. Trav'lin' Light
7. I'll Be Seeing You
8. My Ship
9. It Could Happen to You
10. Long Ago (And Far Away)
11. Winter Wonderland [*]
12. When You Wish Upon a Star [*]
13. Trav'lin' Light [*]

CD Details

All Artists: Sonny Rollins
Title: Original Album Classics
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony Bmg Europe
Release Date: 11/12/2007
Album Type: Import
Genres: Jazz, Pop, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: Bebop, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 5
SwapaCD Credits: 5
Other Editions: Original Album Classics (5 CD)
UPCs: 886971455328, 088697145532

Synopsis

Album Description

2007 five CD set, a great installment in Sony/BMG's Original Album Classics series that brings together rare and out of print titles with some best sellers from the Sony/BMG Jazz catalog. Many of these albums have been unavailable on CD for some time and are sought after by collectors. Each set is presented in a high quality, rigid cardboard slipcase containing five 'vinyl replica' mini LP sleeves. This collection from the Jazz great includes the albums The Bridge, Our Man In Jazz, What's New, The Standard Rollins and Sonny Rollins & Co.

CD Reviews

Sonny squealed on Hawk

Rain Delay | 05/13/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"At these prices you can't expect Japan mini-Lp packaging. If you store the cardboard container with the open part to the front of the shelf, you won't dump the discs onto the floor when you pick it up. There's bonus material on most of the albums, but the liner notes are just reproductions of the original Lp and don't mention the bonus tracks.

But should you buy it even at this price?

You'll hear occasional tape noise and distortion, but that's part of the equation with tapes of this vintage. Overall, the sound is very good.

The real bummer here is "Sonny Meets Hawk." How this one ever escaped the can is a mystery. Hawkins is trying, but Rollins's playing is the worst I've ever heard--not just for him, but for any tenor sax player. This should have faded into a collector's item as an Lp. Was Rollins reading the Racing Form instead of the chart? Or was the chart upside down and he didn't know it?

If you don't have these albums, and you're not too neurotic, you might want it. Just don't carp about the minimal packaging. It's like 12 bucks delivered. Have some sense of proportion.

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Value for money

Nikica Gilic | Zagreb, Croatia | 03/23/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"As someone who wanted to learn more about Sonny Rollins, I found this reasonably priced collection very useful;

few classical albums and a few oddities thrown together really show the scope and range of Sonny's art at a very important stage of his carreer. Meeting with Coleman Hawkins, Don Cherry, Billy Higgins and working in a famous band with Jim Hall, Rollins really shines on many of the tracks...

The Bridge The Standard Sonny Rollins Our Man in Jazz Sonny Meets Hawk!"