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Falling in Love with Jazz

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Falling in Love with Jazz
Studio album by
Released1989
RecordedJune 3, August 5 & September 9, 1989
StudioClinton Recording Studio, New York City
GenreJazz
Length46:29
LabelMilestone
ProducerSonny Rollins, Lucille Rollins
Sonny Rollins chronology
Dancing in the Dark
(1987)
Falling in Love with Jazz
(1989)
Here's to the People
(1991)

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1989, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks.[1] The cover artwork was by Henri Matisse.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album an "average effort from Sonny Rollins and his regular sextet".[2]

Track listing

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All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated
  1. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:42
  2. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) - 6:18
  3. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:41
  4. "Falling in Love with Love" (Hart, Rodgers) - 4:49
  5. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 7:33
  6. "Sister" - 7:03
  7. "Amanda" -5:47
Recorded in New York on June 3 (tracks 1 & 5), August 5 (tracks 2 & 3) and September 9 (tracks 4, 6 & 7), 1989

Personnel

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On tracks 1 and 5:

On all other tracks:

References

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  1. ^ Sonny Rollins discography accessed 22 September 2009
  2. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. "Falling in Love with Jazz > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1235. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.