Sonny Rollins - Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sonny Rollins - InchGo West! The Contemporary Records AlbumsInch - Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins' two studio albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records (Way Out West, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders) with a third disc, Contemporary Alternate Takes. Featuring remastered audio by Bernie Grundman, the 3 LP set pressed at RTI on 180-gram vinyl and includes an expanded booklet with new liner notes and an interview by GRAMMY Award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn. Album Tracks 1. Orinoco Flow 2. Caribbean Blue 3. Book of Days 4. Anywhere Is 1. Only If 2. The Celts 3. Cursum Perficio 4. I Want Tomorrow 1. China Roses 2. Storms in Africa 3. Pax Deorum 1. The Longships 2. Ebudae 3. On My Way Home 4. Boadicea 1. Watermark 2. Portrait (Out of the Blue) 3. Miss Clare Remembers 4. Shepherd Moons 1. March of the Celts 2. Lothlórien 3. From Where I Am 4. Afer Ventus 1. Oriel Window 2. River 3. Tea-House Moon 4. Willows on the Water 1. Morning Glory 2. No Holly for Miss Quinn 3. The Memory of Trees 1. Evening Falls 2. Paint the Sky with Stars 3. Angeles 4. Athair Ar Neamh 1. La Soñadora 2. Aldebaran 3. Deireadh An Tuath 4. Eclipse 5. Exile 1. On Your Shore 2. Evacuee 3. Marble Halls 4. Hope Has a Place 1. The Sun in the Stream 2. Na Laetha Geal M'óige 3. Smaoinim

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. Album Tracks 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 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 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 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 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

Over his long and distinguished career, Sonny Rollins has made many dozens of albums. Among those recorded during the Fifties, Prestige's Moving Out (OJC 58) and Saxophone Colossus (OJC 291), Blue Note's a Night at the Village Vanguard, Riverside's the Sound of Sonny (OJC 29), 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 InchI'm hot now.Inch with Ray Brown, Shelly Manne. Tracks I'm an Old Cowhand, Solitude; Come, Gone; Wagon Wheels, There Is No Greater Love, Way Out West. Album Tracks 1. I'm An Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) 2. I'm An Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) [Alternate Take] 3. Solitude 4. Come, Gone 5. Come, Gone [Alternate Take] 6. Wagon Wheels 7. There Is No Greater Love 8. Way Out West 9. Way Out West [Alternate Take]