What's New?

What's New? Artist: Sonny Rollins
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743217962623
EAN: 0743217962623
ASIN: B00004ZD5T


Release Date: 2000-11-08

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  1. My favorite SONNY ROLLINS, in order
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Tracks:

  1. If Ever I Would Leave You
  2. Don't Stop The Carnival
  3. Jungoso
  4. Bluesongo
  5. The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
  6. Brownskin Girl

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Followup to "The Bridge"........2005-08-30

Recorded just three scant months after his return to playing music, "What's New" finds tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins in two settings-- one backed by a quartet featuring Jim Hall (guitar), Bob Cranshaw (bass) and Ben Riley (drums)-- the same quartet that backed him on "The Bridge", and one backed by Cranshaw and percussionist Candido in a trio. The resulting album is one of astounding performance, in partiuclar from Rollins, who is really playing like a force to be reckoned with.

Perhaps what's most amazing is that the performances from Hall and Rollins are actually in my assessment better than they are on "The Bridge"-- the two of them solo powerfully on the extended ballads "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes". Hall, in particular, steals the show on both pieces-- intertwining and running between and around Rollins-- when the leader threatens to come unhinged in his abstract solo on "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes", Hall keeps him in place. The other two songs from these sessions-- bonus track "Don't Stop the Carnival" and "Brownskin Girl" both feature vocal choruses and a calypso style vocal. 'Carnival' works pretty well, and both feature explosive playing from Rollins, but "Brownskin Girl" feels like a throwaway.

The two pieces from the session with Candido, "Jungoso" and "Bluesongo", are also quite intriguing-- Rollins takes advantage of the looser setting to explore a different sound-- a growling, loping tone that really cuts loose with the open accompaniment and turns out some of his best playing on record. "Jungsongo" in particular is effectively an eleven minute Rollins solo where he's nothing short or astounding in his inventiveness and fierceness.

It's not quite the masterpiece "The Bridge" is, really I think it's my distate for "Brownskin Girl" that makes me say that-- it's quite an album barring this track. Recommended.

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