Artist: Sonny Rollins
Album: Way Out West
Genre: Hard Bop
Label: Victor Entertainment
Released: 1957/1997
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- I'm an Old Cowhand (Mercer) - 5:44
- Solitude (Ellington-DeLange-Mills) - 7:53
- Come, Gone (Rollins) - 7:53
- Wagon Wheels (DeRose-Hill) - 10:13
- There Is No Greater Love (Jones-Symes) - 5:18
- Way Out West (Rollins) - 6:33
- I'm an Old Cowhand (alternate take) (Mercer) - 10:23
- Come, Gone (alternate take) (Rollins) - 10:39
- Way Out West (alternate take) (Rollins) - 6:45
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- Personnel:
- Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
- Ray Brown - bass
- Shelly Manne - drums
The timeless Way out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the following year). Joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, Rollins is heard at one of his peaks on such pieces as "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)," his own "Way out West," "There Is No Greater Love," and "Come, Gone" (a fast stomp based on "After You've Gone"). The William Claxton photo of Rollins wearing Western gear (and holding his tenor) in the desert is also a classic. [The Contemporary re-release appends three bonus tracks, all of them alternate takes.]
Review by Scott Yanow