TAS Audiophile Demo Disc! Over his long and distinguished career, Sonny Rollins has made many dozens of albums. Among those recorded during the Fifties, Prestige’s Moving Out and Saxophone Colossus, Blue Note’s A Night at the Village Vanguard, Riverside’s The Sound of Sonny, and Way Out West on Contemporary qualify as all-time Rollins classics. The session for Way Out West, Rollins’s first ever in California, was called for 3 a.m. to accommodate everyone’s busy schedules. Sonny, who could never be accused of overstatement, announced after four hours of recording: “I’m hot now.”
Features:
• Vinyl LP
Musicians:
Sonny Rollins, tenor sax
Ray Brown, bass
Shelly Manne, drums
Selections:
1. I'm An Old Cowhand
2. Solitude
3. Come, Gone
4. Wagon Wheels
5. There Is No Greater Love
6. Way Out West
Recorded March 7, 1957 at Contemporary's studio in Los Angeles.
