Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders

~ Release by Sonny Rollins (see all versions of this release, 10 available)

Annotation

Label: Contemporary - Catalog #: M 3564, S 7564 - Format: LP - Rel: 1958 (USA) - Omit: #6-#10
Label: Fantasy/OJC - Catalog #: OJC 340/OJCCD 340-2 - Format: LP/CD - Rel: 1991 (USA)
Location:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Recording Date:
1958/10/20&21&22
Personnel:
Sonny Rollins (ts), Victor Feldman (vib), Hampton Hawes (p), Barney Kessel (g), Leroy Vinnegar (b), Shelly Manne (d)
Additional:
Another take of You from this session exists, and has been released in Contemporary Alternate Takes (Contemporary C 7651) and in the anthology boxset.

Annotation last modified on 2006-06-28 04:53 UTC.

Tracklist

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1I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
recorded in:
Los Angeles, United States (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
instrumental recording of:
I’ve Told Ev’ry Little Star (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
composer:
Jerome Kern
part of:
Music in the Air
5:26
2Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody
recorded in:
Los Angeles, United States (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
instrumental recording of:
Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Sam M. Lewis (1930s lyricist) and Joe Young (US lyricist)
composer:
Jean Schwartz
publisher:
B. Feldman & Co. Ltd. (publisher est. 1946) and Redwood Music Ltd. (Carlin)
4:54
3How High the Moon
recorded in:
Los Angeles, United States (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
instrumental recording of:
How High the Moon (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Nancy Hamilton (in 1940)
composer:
Morgan Lewis (in 1940)
publisher:
Chappell (company that specialized in library and production music), Chappell & Co., Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA) and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
7:45
4You
recorded in:
Los Angeles, United States (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
vibraphone:
Victor Feldman (jazz musician) (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
recording of:
You (from "The Great Ziegfeld") (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Harold Adamson
composer:
Walter Donaldson
4:15
5I've Found a New Baby
recorded in:
Los Angeles, United States (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (from 1958-10-20 until 1958-10-22)
recording of:
I’ve Found a New Baby (in 1958-10)
writer:
Jack Palmer (Jazz pianist and composer) and Spencer Williams (US jazz composer, pianist & singer)
3:39
6I've Found a New Baby (alternate take)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (in 1958-10)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (in 1958-10)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (in 1958-10)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (in 1958-10)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (in 1958-10)
instrumental recording of:
I’ve Found a New Baby (in 1958-10)
writer:
Jack Palmer (Jazz pianist and composer) and Spencer Williams (US jazz composer, pianist & singer)
4:25
7Alone Together
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (in 1958-10)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (in 1958-10)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (in 1958-10)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (in 1958-10)
instrumental recording of:
Alone Together (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Howard Dietz (librettist)
composer:
Arthur Schwartz
publisher:
Arthur Schwartz Music Ltd., Warner Bros. Music (publisher; do NOT use as release label) and Warner Bros., Inc. (Warner Bros. Music Division)
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
6:00
8In the Chapel in the Moonlight
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (in 1958-10)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (in 1958-10)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (in 1958-10)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (in 1958-10)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (in 1958-10)
instrumental recording of:
In the Chapel in the Moonlight (in 1958-10)
lyricist and composer:
Billy Hill (US songwriter) (in 1936)
6:41
9The Song Is You
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (in 1958-10)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (in 1958-10)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (in 1958-10)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (in 1958-10)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (in 1958-10)
instrumental recording of:
The Song Is You (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
composer:
Jerome Kern
publisher:
PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (renamed Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. circa 1998) and T.B. Harms Co.
5:44
10The Song Is You (alternate take)
double bass [bass]:
Leroy Vinnegar (in 1958-10)
drums (drum set):
Shelly Manne (US jazz drummer) (in 1958-10)
guitar:
Barney Kessel (in 1958-10)
piano:
Hampton Hawes (in 1958-10)
tenor saxophone:
Sonny Rollins (in 1958-10)
instrumental recording of:
The Song Is You (in 1958-10)
lyricist:
Oscar Hammerstein II (of Rodgers & Hammerstein)
composer:
Jerome Kern
publisher:
PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. (renamed Universal PolyGram International Publishing, Inc. circa 1998) and T.B. Harms Co.
6:10