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What's New (Import) (CD)

By: Sonny Rollins

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DISC 1 for What's New (Import) (CD) Album By Sonny Rollins
1   If Ever I Would Leave You  
2   Don't Stop The Carnival  
3   Jungoso  
4   Bluesongo  
5   Night Has A Thousand Eyes  
6   Brownskin Girl  
 

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Sonny Rollins Quartet: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Jim Hall (guitar); Bob Cranshaw (acoustic bass); Ben Riley (drums).
Additional personnel: H. Roberts, M. Stewart, C. Spencer, M. Burton, N. Wright, W. Glover (vocals); Candido (congas, bongos); Dennis Charles (congas); Frank Charles (bongos); Willie Rodriguez (shaker).
Producers: George Avakian, Bob Prine.
Reissue producer: John Snyder
Digitally remastered by Jay Newland (March, 1993, BMG Studios, New York). Includes liner notes by Gene Kalbacher.
Recorded almost a year before GETZ/GILBERTO, WHAT'S NEW offers the flip side to that definitive recording of early Sixties bossa nova. Getz and Gilberto carefully distilled their music down to its essentials; the vocal and sense of song came first, and Getz's warm, furry tenor obligatti made the perfect complement to Gilberto's half-talked, half-sung vocals.
In contrast, WHAT'S NEW is an extrovert's record. The ensemble on "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" is the same as on Rollins' landmark "pianoless quartet" return to the jazz scene, THE BRIDGE (1961) and guitarist Hall, bassist Cranshaw and drummer Riley all dig in and cook behind their leader. Rollins' tone is muscular, his improvisations expansive and his attack confident, at times bordering on strident. "Jungoso" is essentially a dialogue between the tenorist and percussionist Candido, underpinned by Cranshaw's vamp. The same trio blows through the relaxed "Bluesongo." "Brown Skin Gal" marries Latin percussion to a calypso groove and features six-part vocals framing solos by Rollins and Hall.

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Recorded almost a year before GETZ/GILBERTO, WHAT'S NEW offers the flip side to that definitive recording of early Sixties bossa nova. Getz and Gilberto carefully distilled their music down to its essentials; the vocal and sense of song came first, and Getz's warm, furry tenor obligatti made the perfect complement to Gilberto's half-talked, half-sung vocals.
In contrast, WHAT'S NEW is an extrovert's record. The ensemble on "If Ever I Would Leave You" and "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes" is the same as on Rollins' landmark "pianoless quartet" return to the jazz scene, THE BRIDGE (1961) and guitarist Hall, bassist Cranshaw and drummer Riley all dig in and cook behind their leader. Rollins' tone is muscular, his improvisations expansive and his attack confident, at times bordering on strident. "Jungoso" is essentially a dialogue between the tenorist and percussionist Candido, underpinned by Cranshaw's vamp. The same trio blows through the relaxed "Bluesongo". "Brown Skin Gal" marries Latin percussion to a calypso groove and features six-part vocals framing solos by Rollins and Hall.

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