Falling in Love with Jazz explained

Falling in Love with Jazz
Type:Album
Artist:Sonny Rollins
Cover:Falling in Love with Jazz.jpg
Border:yes
Released:1989
Recorded:June 3, August 5 & September 9, 1989
Studio:Clinton Recording Studio, New York City
Genre:Jazz
Length:46:29
Label:Milestone
Producer:Sonny Rollins, Lucille Rollins
Prev Title:Dancing in the Dark
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Here's to the People
Next Year:1991

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1989, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks.[1] The cover artwork was by Henri Matisse.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album an "average effort from Sonny Rollins and his regular sextet".

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

  1. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:42
  2. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) - 6:18
  3. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:41
  4. "Falling in Love with Love" (Hart, Rodgers) - 4:49
  5. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 7:33
  6. "Sister" - 7:03
  7. "Amanda" -5:47

Recorded in New York on June 3 (tracks 1 & 5), August 5 (tracks 2 & 3) and September 9 (tracks 4, 6 & 7), 1989

Personnel

On tracks 1 and 5:

On all other tracks:

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/sonny-rollins/catalog/#milestone-m-9179 Sonny Rollins discography