ROLLINS’ FIRST ALBUM AFTER HIS SELFIMPOSED THREE YEAR MUSICAL EXILE!
5 STARS DOWN BEAT MAGAZINE
4 1/2 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE
INCLUDES 1 BONUS TRACK
PERSONNEL:
SONNY ROLLINS, tenor saxophone
JIM HALL, guitar
BOB CRANSHAW, bass
BEN RILEY, drums (on Side A, B1 & B3)
HARRY T. SAUNDERS, drums (on B2 only)
New York, January 30 (B2), February 13 (A2, A3, B3) & February 14 (A1, B1), 1962.
Original sessions produced by Bob Prince.
*BONUS TRACK (B4): Same personnel as above (Riley on drums).
Ralph Gleason’s “Jazz Casual” TV Show, San Francisco, March 23, 1962.
SIDE A:
01 WITHOUT A SONG (Edward Eliscu-Billy Rose-Vincent Youmans) 7:28
02 WHERE ARE YOU? (Harold Adamson-Jimmy McHugh) 5:10
03 JOHN S. (Sonny Rollins) 7:44
SIDE B:
01 THE BRIDGE (Sonny Rollins) 5:59
02 GOD BLESS THE CHILD (Billie Holiday-Arthur Herzog, Jr.) 7:28
03 YOU DO SOMETHING TO ME (Cole Porter) 6:51
04 THE BRIDGE (Sonny Rollins) [alternate version] 5:12*