Sonny Rollins and Don Cherry - Complete 1963 Stuttgart Concert
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Artist: Sonny Rollins and Don CherryEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Music Label: 101 DISTRIBUTION
Soundtracks:
- 52nd Street Theme 1:19
- On Green Dolphin Street 18:32
- Sonnymoon For Two 22:32
- Oleo 4:40*
- I Want To Be Happy 6:48**
- Oleo 6:16**
- Sonnys Blues 9:13**
Music reviews of Complete 1963 Stuttgart Concert
Music Review: A Night on Tour in Germany...
Rating: 4 Stars
Ten days after the Jan. 19, 1963 Paris Concert, we are lucky enough to have this recording from Stuttgart. Rollins is in good form, if somewhat less exuberant than in Paris. Don Cherry, on the other hand, has one of his greatest of all nights. His solo on Green Dolphin Street manages to be completely oblique and swinging in the pocket at the same time. He has the gift of being able to play in the zone between symmetry and asymmetry with total freedom - something Rollins was using this group as a Master Class for learning. You can hear the difference in the way Grimes and Higgins play for the two front liners. There's just much more playfulness in the way they play for Don. Maybe this was a cause of tension. After all, it's Rollins' group. Who knows? I wish there was some documentation of the group dynamics during this tour. Rollins never again tried to go this far in terms of stretching form, and I find that a pity.
Higgins is really on fire here, with all kinds of quasi Afro - Cuban subdividing. Grimes, in his solo, displays the kind of impenetrable interiority that has marked his work since his amazing comeback. It's interesting to already hear that here (not at all when he's accompaning, by the way). The quasi - free group playing is really not as stellar as in Paris.
Sonnymoon For Two here is an heroic 22 and a half minutes long. Don owns it again, although his sound is in danger of breaking up. Embouchure was never his strongest suit. Rollins seems disconcerted, not sure of where to go. He pulls out some of the great moments of the Live At The Village Vanguard solo, but too early, without building up to them. The other 3 try to draw him into uncharted areas, but it's not clear that he wants that. This solo, for all of its mastery, is unfocused compared to Rollins' best. The "fours" near the end between Rollins and Higgins are really exciting, but not very deep.
But let's be clear, the chance to study the ebb and flow of the band, night after night, is invaluable. The magic didn't really happen in Stuttgart. But what I'd give, in 2010, to hear group playing on this level. There are still many great players. But who's dedicated to taking swing as matière primaire, and then expanding from that? Because at every moment this music swings like crazy.
The bonus tracks...I Want To Be Happy, from 1958: Fabulous virtuosity, including a real workout for the pitch Bb (4 Octaves!) at around 1:25 and a Klezmer quote at 1:40. I can totally (again!) understand why he would want to work with Cherry and with freer music, because you can feel his desire to take that motive that he worries to death and break it free from its moorings, transpose it all over the place, and like that. But he doesn't, and I think he couldn't.
Then a different kind of virtuosity on Oleo and Sonny's Blues. An "All - Star" session w/ Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Kenny Drew, Percy Heath. Wonderful playing. But absolutely unengaging for me. Festival Jazz.
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Description of Complete 1963 Stuttgart Concert
2009 release containing all known music from the 1963 Stuttgart performance by the Sonny Rollins-Don Cherry piano-less quartet. The three initial tunes appear here on CD for the first time ever, and the concert's finale, 'Oleo', is previously unissued in any format. As a bonus, a rare trio version of 'I Want to Be Happy', recorded by Rollins live at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, and two rare 1965 quintet tracks have been added for your listening pleasure. Includes eight page booklet. RLR.Jazz CDs
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