Sonny Rollins Quintet, Kenny Dorham, Max Roach Rollins Plays For Bird (180g, Mono, Analogue Productions)

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• Cut from the analogue masters by renowned mastering engineer Kevin Gray

  180-gram pressing by Quality Record Pressings

  Deluxe high-gloss tip-on album jacket

  As the tenor sax is not in the same key as an alto, Sonny Rollins would have to transpose a lot of music to take a tribute to Charlie Parker to a high level. Instead Rollins has chosen standards associated with Parker, and recorded them within a year after Birds passing.

  The music certainly has its moments, as on the inexhaustible 27-minute medley of seven tunes seamlessly stitched together. Rollins plays the melody on alternating songs “I Remember You” and “They Cant Take That Away from Me,” Kenny Dorham has at it for “My Melancholy Baby” and “Just Friends,” with Wade Legge getting his two cents in on