Happy birthday to Mr. Sonny Rollins, 76 years young today.
Celebrate by picking up "Our Man in Jazz," an RCA Victor/BMG CD of 1962-63 recordings, including a 25-minute remake of Mr. Rollins' "Oleo" by the saxophonist and trumpeter Don Cherry that could be used as a textbook example of how to play in the avant-garde vein but remain accessible.
Cool to hear Bob Cranshaw, who seems like he's been playing electric bass forever, playing an acoustic bass on three of the tracks as well. The great Henry Grimes handles the bass on the other three tracks and Billy Higgins drums throughout. This was a marvelous Sonny Rollins group.
2 comments:
Look at the videos Sonny's posted on his Web site for this week only. A lot of them feature a verry young Henry Grimes.
If Henry Grimes hadn't suffered from mental health problems, I think he could have ended up Bob Cranshaw and played with Mr. Rollins for decades.
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