Tour de Force

Sonny Rollins

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Tour de Force Review

by Scott Yanow

A better purchase than Sonny Boy (OJC 348) which has four of this set's six numbers plus "The House I Live In" from an earlier date. None of the Sonny Rollins' originals (which include "B. Swift," "B. Quick" and "Ee-Ah") on this release caught on. With pianist Kenny Drew, bassist George Morrow and drummer Max Roach completing the quartet, Rollins was in consistently creative form during this prime period but the overall set is not as classic as most of the tenor's other recordings from the 1950s.

Track Listing

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time	Stream
1	Ee-Ah Sonny Rollins	Sonny Rollins	06:55	Spotify Amazon
2	B. Quick Sonny Rollins	Sonny Rollins	09:11	Spotify Amazon
3	Two Different Worlds Al Frisch / Sid Wayne	Sonny Rollins	07:41	Spotify Amazon
4	B. Swift Sonny Rollins	Sonny Rollins	05:18	Spotify Amazon
5	My Ideal Newell Chase / Leo Robin / Richard A. Whiting	Sonny Rollins	04:24	Spotify Amazon
6	Sonny Boy Lew Brown / Buddy DeSylva / Ray Henderson / Al Jolson	Sonny Rollins	08:21	Spotify Amazon