Newk's Time

Newk's Time Artist: Sonny Rollins
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724359083322
EAN: 0724359083322
ASIN: B0001CLZOM


Release Date: 2004-03-23

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Tracks:

  1. Tune Up
  2. Asiatic
  3. Wonderful Wonderful
  4. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
  5. Blues For Philly Joe
  6. Namely You

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great CD.......2006-09-14

This is a great CD.

I just bought a 3-CD Sonny Rollins set that includes "Sonny Rollins, Volume 1", "Sonny Rollins, Volume 2", and "Newk's Time." These are the RVG Editions. Cost was $25.

5 out of 5 stars Sonny's best.......2004-07-09

This is the record to get if you want to learn about Sonny Rollins, start with this, listen to Rollins play over II/V/I on Tune Up, every tune is great! I got hipped to this record listening to Wynton Marsalis on his radio show for NPR in high school, I heard a snippet of Tune Up and I was just blown away.

4 out of 5 stars Very solid effort by Sonny.......2004-07-07

I'm going to be unfair and give this only four stars, because as good as it is (and it is very good) it reminds you more of the glory that is Saxophone Colossus...and of course, other albums like the Freedom Suite. Sonny's hard bop is powerful and engaging, and he is especially good on Tune-Up (his staccatto lines are very interesting.) It's a nice selection of songs, and the one original, Blues for Philly Joe, should get as much attention as other Rollins standards. Wynton Kelley should really get more solo time on this album. Good listening, but compared to Colossus, and all the albums where Rollins uses the bass-drum format, Newk's Time is just a step below.

5 out of 5 stars A remastered classic.......2004-05-27

This is a beautiful CD, and a great remastered sound too. This is rarely listed among Sonny's best recordings and its a shame, because it belongs there at the top. This is among my top three Sonny Rollings recordings of all time. The 6:30 duet with Philly Joe Jones on "Surrey with the fringe on top' will just blow your mind and its one of the best examples of Sonny's ability to swing a tune.

5 out of 5 stars Time Again for "Newk's Time".......2004-03-23

Unlike most of the recent batch of RVG releases (3/9 & 3/23/04), Sonny Rollins' classic "Newk's Time" has been readily available for years, but this remastered reissue is a welcome addition to the Blue Note catalog nonetheless. Of Sonny's three studio albums for the label, "Newk's Time" has always been my favorite. His debut, "Volume One" (see my review), never measured up to his contemporaneous efforts for Prestige, and "Volume Two" featured an incredible supporting cast, but at the expense of showcasing the tenor titan's individual talents. Therefore, on this September 22, 1957 session it was clearly time for "Newk" to stand in the spotlight. The quartet setting (in this case Wynton Kelly on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums) gave Rollins the ability to stretch out, yet provided him with a stability that, for me anyway, was consistently lacking with only the bass and drums support of the live "Night at the Village Vanguard" volumes. The performances featured here of Miles Davis' "Tune Up," Kenny Dorham's "Asiatic Raes" and Rollins' only original "Blues for Philly Joe" (along with the album's three standards) are all so good, it is hard for me to even begin to select the best track. Suffice it to say that a good time will had by all with "Newk's Time."

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