Tour de Force (Sonny Rollins album)
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| Studio album by Sonny Rollins | ||||
| Released | 1957 | |||
| Recorded | December 7, 1956 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 41:40 | |||
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Prestige PR 7126 |
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| Allmusic |
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| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
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.
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." 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'."
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