Sonny Rollins Without A Song: The 9/11 Concert

JazzTimes: "[T]he music is still powerfully affecting because it contains the new, raw emotional wounds that bound everyone in the room together on this night."
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item number:  32VR3
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CD Details

  • Released: August 30, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2005
  • Label: Milestone

Description by OLDIES.com:

Without a Song was recorded at a Boston concert just four days after the attacks on 9/11, when Sonny himself was evacuated from his Lower Manhattan apartment. It is a moving demonstration of the healing power of music in general and the vast inventiveness, glorious sweep, and sheer vitality of Sonny Rollins' music in particular.

Entertainment Reviews:

Down Beat - p.68
4 stars out of 5 - "[H]e demonstrates that he can play as freely as any contemporary improviser, scattering abstract phrases and probing down numerous musical alleyways."
JazzTimes - p.72
"[T]he music is still powerfully affecting because it contains the new, raw emotional wounds that bound everyone in the room together on this night."
Mojo (Publisher) - p.118
3 stars out of 5 - "[A]s this live recording vividly demonstrates, his innate sense of melodic and rhythmic fluency hasn't deserted him in his twilight years."

Tracks:

  • 1.Without A Song
  • 2.Global Warming
  • 3.Introductions
  • 4.A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
  • 5.Why Was I Born
  • 6.Where Or When

Product Info

  • Sales Rank: 132,029
  • UPC: 025218934220
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
  • International Shipping: 1 item

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