Sonny Rollins on Impulse!
by Sonny Rollins
- Type: Album
- Released: August 1965
- Label: Impulse!
- Country: United States
- Length: 34:33
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
For his only album released on Impulse!, Sonny Rollins works with a conventional quartet, leaning heavily into calypso rhythms and upbeat standards. His tenor saxophone improvisations are notably playful and rhythmic, anchoring the session in structured hard bop while exploring extended, thematic variations.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, acoustic, improvisation, rhythmic
Tracklist
- On Green Dolphin Street (7:07)
- Everything Happens To Me (11:15)
- Hold 'Em Joe (5:29)
- Blue Room (3:43)
- Three Little Words (6:57)
Credits
- Sonny Rollins - primary artist, tenor saxophone
- Walter Booker - bass
- Joe Lebow - design [liner]
- Mickey Roker - drums
- Rudy Van Gelder - engineer, lacquer cut by
- Nat Hentoff - liner notes
- Chuck Stewart - photography by [cover photo]
- Bob Thiele - photography by [liner photos], producer
- Ray Bryant - piano
- Bronislaw Kaper - written-by
- Ned Washington - written-by
- Matt Dennis - written-by
- Tom Adair - written-by
- Harry Thomas - written-by
- Rodgers & Hart - written-by
- Bert Kalmar - written-by
- Harry Ruby - written-by