Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (1957/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (1957/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:28 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Concord Records

Recorded and released in 1957, this groundbreaking jazz-country album features Sonny Rollins accompanied by Ray Brown on bass and drummer Shelly Manne, with no pianist. Rollins chose cover songs and wrote originals that captured his love of the Western movies he grew up watching, with their themes of independence and self-sufficiency.

The timeless Way out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz’s top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the following year). Joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, Rollins is heard at one of his peaks on such pieces as “I’m an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande),” his own “Way out West,” “There Is No Greater Love,” and “Come, Gone” (a fast stomp based on “After You’ve Gone”). The William Claxton photo of Rollins wearing Western gear (and holding his tenor) in the desert is also a classic. [The Contemporary re-release appends three bonus tracks, all of them alternate takes].

Tracklist:
1. Sonny Rollins – I’m An Old Cowhand (05:42)
2. Sonny Rollins – Solitude (07:52)
3. Sonny Rollins – Come, Gone (07:54)
4. Sonny Rollins – Wagon Wheels (10:13)
5. Sonny Rollins – There Is No Greater Love (05:16)
6. Sonny Rollins – Way Out West (06:29)

Personnel:
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
Ray Brown – double bass
Shelly Manne – drums

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