![]() Sonny has always been an exacting artist and very self critical of his work. Only the last two compositions were recorded in North America, whereas the previous five numbers range from Japan, Poland, France, and Sweden. ![]() The first five tracks were recorded while he was under contract to Milestone Records, and on the earliest date, from Sweden in 1980, Rollins performs Blossom – a previously unrecorded original. ![]() The track selections culminate in Sonny’s 50th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall in 2007, where he performed the ballad, Some Enchanted Evening, backed solely by bassist Christian McBride and drummer, Roy Haynes. 1 (evidently there will be several more?), an even more a valuable acquisition is the fact that the seven tracks on the disc are from either Sonny’s personal archives (many given to him by collector Carl Smith) or from soundboard tapings. Covering a 27 year period from 1980 to 2007, what makes Road Shows, Vol. It is quite an opportunity to be able to listen to a single compilation CD from the mid to late career period of the great Sonny Rollins. ![]() (Sonny Rollins – tenor sax with supporting musicians including Clifton Anderson – trombone Mark Soskin & Stephen Scott – piano Bobby Broom – guitar Jerome Harris, Bob Cranshaw, Christian McBride – bass Al Foster, Victor Lewis, Roy Haynes – drums) ![]()
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