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Sonny Rollins in 1973
The correct title is 'Sonny Rollins Live At Laren'. The programme was recorded at the Laren Jazz Festival in the Netherlands, August 1973. It is not far short of 40 minutes and features tenor saxist Sonny Rollins with Walter Bishop Jr (piano), Matsuo (electric guitar), Bob Cranshaw (bass guitar) and David Lee (drums). David Lee was quite a find – with a fine rolling style – I wonder what happened to him. The choice of tunes looks routine: There Is No Greater Love, Don't Stop The Carnival, Theme from 'Alfie' and St Thomas, but this is populist Rollins the big festival crowd-pleaser at work. Colour picture and sound are a bit muddy on the DVD released by Discovery Records in 2005. The remaining 32 minutes of that particular disc are taken up by a neat black-and-white documentary about tenor saxist Ben Webster's life as a resident of Amsterdam in 1967 – interesting scenes of Ben performing and rehearsing but no complete tunes.
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- rhylcolinjones
- Jun 21, 2011
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