Rollins Plays for Bird

Rollins Plays for Bird is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the Prestige label, featuring performances by Rollins with Kenny Dorham, Wade Legge, George Morrow, and Max Roach on material associated with Charlie Parker.^[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos describes the album as "A disappointment in terms of the division of labor, and not the merging of titans jazz lovers would have wished for, this recording still provides a great deal of high level music that could have been so much more".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

1. "Bird Medley: I Remember You/My Melancholy Baby/Old Folks/They Can't Take That Away From Me/Just Friends/My Little Suede Shoes/Star Eyes" (Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger/Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton/Dedette Lee Hill, Willard Robison/George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin/John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis/Charlie Parker/Gene DePaul, Don Raye) - 26:55
2. "Kids Know" - 11:39
3. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) - 4:52
4. "The House I Live In" (Allen Lewis, Earl Robinson) - 9:21 Bonus track on CD rerelease

• Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, on October 5, 1956.

Personnel

• Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone
• Kenny Dorham - trumpet
• Wade Legge - piano
• George Morrow - bass
• Max Roach - drums

References