Work Time

Artist: Sonny Rollins
Label: Ojc
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025218000727
EAN: 0025218000727
ASIN: B000000Y08

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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Tracks:

There's No Business Like Show Business
Paradox
Raincheck
There Are Such Things
It's All Right With Me

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Customer Reviews:

Work Time Works Just Fine For Me.......2007-01-02

I got this record on vinyl from a friend whose dad, a jazz pianist, left it behind when he skedaddled. Good thing he left this, because I discovered it was a rare gem. It starts with a brisk rendition of Irving Berlin's There's No Business Like Show Business, that cooks, swings, and manages to be earnest and humorous simultaneously. Rollins is really working here, and he wants you to be entertained.

Then he does three original tunes, Raincheck, Paradox, and There Are Such Things, each one a classic well composed tune that could be a standard, if perhaps someone would write lyrics for it.

He finishes as he begins, with a show tune, this one Cole Porter's It's All Right With Me from Can Can. Sonny really loves well written tunes, and this one is one of Cole Porter's wellest written. He does it justice with his nimble rhythm, his robust sound, and his unbridled musicallity.

Only five tunes on this record, but each one a jewel, and on each one Mr. Rollins really gets down to business. Work Time.

Worktime.......2005-02-20

Sonny Rollins, Worktime, a very underrated album. It opens up with There's No Buisness Like Show Buisness. Every time I play it, my father gets drawn to it, and if in a trance, comes to my record player.

Parodox, a latin like swing, is great. Raincheck, nice melodies, nice grooves. Some other nice ballads. This is a wonderful piece of work by Newk in early 1955, fresh out of the Cliff Brown, Max Roach Quintet, and done with of a drug addiction.

Newk was always at his best in every setting, but I feel this one captures him rather, more inspired than usual. Maybe it's because it was just another record date, and no pressure. The ideas just came puring out of his horn without effort. And the result was magical!

Sonny Goes to Work on "Work Time".......2000-08-24

Sonny Rollins and company don't waste any time going to work on the classic "Work Time." The all-star band of Ray Bryant, George Morrow and the incomparable Max Roach punch-in quickly with the blazing "There's No Business Like Show Business." The telepathic interplay between Sonny and Roach is a trademark of this album, and it's particularly evident on the album's next two tracks, "Paradox" and "Raincheck." A lovely ballad, "There Are Such Things," is the fourth track, and the band clocks-out at 5 much the way they began with the break-neck swing pace of "It's All Right With Me." If only I could have this much fun at work.

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