Tour de Force (Sonny Rollins album)

Tour de Force is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins featuring his final recordings for the Prestige label performed by Rollins with Kenny Drew, George Morrow, and Max Roach with vocals by Earl Coleman on two tracks.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[4]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Rollins was in consistently creative form during this prime period but the overall set is not as classic as most of the tenor's other recordings from the 1950s."^[2] The Penguin Guide to Jazz gives the album four stars out of four and describes is as being "almost as good as Colossus, with the ferocious abstractions of 'B Swift' and 'B Quick' contrasting with the methodical, almost surgical destruction of 'Sonny Boy'."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

"Ee-Ah" - 6:52
"B. Quick" - 9:13
"Two Different Worlds" (Al Frisch, Sid Wayne) - 7:37
"B. Swift" - 5:15
"My Ideal" (Newell Chase, Leo Robin, Richard A. Whiting) - 4:21
"Sonny Boy" (Lew Brown, Buddy DeSylva, Ray Henderson, Al Jolson) - 8:22 Bonus track on CD rerelease

Personnel

References

↑ Sonny Rollins discography, accessed October 8, 2009.
1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Tour de Force > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2002). The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD (6th edn), Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140515213
↑ Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 172. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

Sonny Rollins

Prestige	Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet Moving Out Work Time Sonny Rollins Plus 4 Tenor Madness Saxophone Colossus Rollins Plays for Bird Tour de Force Sonny Boy

Blue Note	Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Newk's Time Night at the Village Vanguard

RCA Victor	The Bridge What's New? Our Man in Jazz Sonny Meets Hawk! Now's the Time The Standard Sonny Rollins

Impulse!	There Will Never Be Another You Sonny Rollins on Impulse! Alfie East Broadway Run Down

Milestone	Next Album Horn Culture The Cutting Edge Nucleus The Way I Feel Easy Living Don't Ask Love at First Sight No Problem Reel Life Sunny Days, Starry Nights Dancing in the Dark Falling in Love with Jazz Here's to the People Old Flames Sonny Rollins + 3 Global Warming This Is What I Do Don't Stop the Carnival The Solo Album G-Man Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert

Other labels	Way Out West The Sound of Sonny Sonny Side Up Freedom Suite Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders Sonny, Please

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