SONNY ROLLINS + 3

Sonny Rollins + 3
Sonny Rollins + 3
Studio album by Sonny Rollins
Released	1996
Recorded	August 30 & October 7, 1995
Genre	Jazz
Length	55:42
Label	Milestone
Producer	Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins chronology

Sonny Rollins + 3 is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1995, featuring performances by Rollins with Bob Cranshaw, Stephen Scott, Jack DeJohnette, Tommy Flanagan and Al Foster.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[3]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Rollins is in wonderful form, stretching out on two basic originals and five standards.... This studio set captures the excitement of a Sonny Rollins concert and is highly recommended."^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

" What a Difference a Day Made" ( Stanley Adams, María Mendez Grever) - 10:05
"Biji" - 8:18
" They Say It's Wonderful" ( Irving Berlin) - 6:15
" Mona Lisa" ( Ray Evans, Jay Livingston) - 3:53
"Cabin in the Sky" ( Vernon Duke, John Latouche) - 8:50
"H.S." - 6:17
" I've Never Been in Love Before" ( Frank Loesser) - 12:19

Recorded in New York City on August 30 (tracks 3 & 5) and October 7 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 7), 1995

Personnel

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Bob Cranshaw - electric bass
Stephen Scott - piano (tracks 3 & 5)
Jack DeJohnette - drums (tracks 3 & 5)
Tommy Flanagan - piano (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 7)
Al Foster - drums (tracks 1, 2, 4, 6 & 7)

References

^ Sonny Rollins discography, accessed September 21, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. "Sonny Rollins + 3 > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1236. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Rollins_disco-1] Sonny Rollins discography, accessed September 21, 2009.

[AM-2] Yanow, Scott. "Sonny Rollins + 3 > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.

[Penguin-3] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1236. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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v t e Sonny Rollins
Discography
Studio albums	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 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1 Way Out West Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 The Sound of Sonny Freedom Suite Newk's Time Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders The Bridge What's New? Our Man in Jazz Sonny Meets Hawk! Now's the Time The Standard Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins on Impulse! Alfie East Broadway Run Down Next Album Horn Culture Nucleus The Way I Feel Easy Living Don't Ask Love at First Sight No Problem Reel Life Sunny Days, Starry Nights The Solo Album 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 Sonny, Please
Live albums	A Night at the "Village Vanguard" There Will Never Be Another You The Cutting Edge Don't Stop the Carnival G-Man Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Road Shows, Vol. 1
Other albums	Sonny Side Up

v t e Tommy Flanagan
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Overseas (1957) Lonely Town (1959) The Tommy Flanagan Trio (1960) Solo Piano (1974) The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital (1975) Trinity (1976) Alone Too Long (1977) Confirmation (1977–78) Eclypso (1977) Montreux '77 (1977) Ballads & Blues (1978) More Delights (1978) Our Delights (1978) Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1978) The Super Jazz Trio (1978) Together (and Kenny Barron, 1978) Tommy Flanagan Plays the Music of Harold Arlen (1978) Something Tasty (1979) Super-Session (1980) The Standard (1980) You're Me (1980) ...And a Little Pleasure (1981) The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan (1981) Giant Steps (1982) Thelonica (1982) The Magic of 2 (and Jaki Byard, 1982) Blues in the Closet (1983) I'm All Smiles (and Hank Jones, 1983) The Master Trio (and Ron Carter, Tony Williams, 1983) Nights at the Vanguard (1986) Jazz Poet (1989) Beyond the Blue Bird (1990) Flanagan's Shenanigans (1993) Lady Be Good ... For Ella (1993) Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones (1993) Sea Changes (1996) Sunset and the Mockingbird (1997)
With Pepper Adams	Motor City Scene (1960) Encounter! (1968) The Master (1980) The Adams Effect (1985)
With Kenny Burrell	Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956) Swingin' (1956) Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956) All Day Long (1957) Kenny Burrell (Prestige, 1957) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1958) Weaver of Dreams (1960–61) Bluesy Burrell (and Coleman Hawkins, 1962)
With John Coltrane	The Cats (no leader,1957) Jazz Way Out ( Wilbur Harden, 1958) Mainstream 1958 (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Tanganyika Strut (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Giant Steps (Coltrane, 1959)
With Art Farmer	Art (1960) Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1962) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Group Therapy (New York Jazz Sextet, 1965–66)
With Ella Fitzgerald	Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) Ella in Hamburg (1965) Sunshine of Your Love (1968) Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1969) Ella in Budapest (1970) Ella à Nice (1971) Ella Loves Cole (1972) Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972) Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (1973) Ella in London (1974) Fine and Mellow (1974) Montreux '75 (1975) Montreux '77 (1977)
With Curtis Fuller	Jazz ...It's Magic! (1957) Blues-ette (1959) Sliding Easy (1959) South American Cookin' (1961)
With Coleman Hawkins	At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (1960) Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960) Back in Bean's Bag (1962) Desafinado (1962) Good Old Broadway (1962) Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962) Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962) Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962) The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962) Today and Now (1962)
With Milt Jackson	Bags & Flutes (1957) Bags' Opus (1958) Bean Bags (1958) Vibrations (1960–61) Invitation (1962) Statements (1961) Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)
With J.J. Johnson	J Is for Jazz (1956) Blue Trombone (1957) Dial J. J. 5 (1957) First Place (1957) J. J. in Person! (1958) Pinnacles (1979)
With Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus (1956) There Will Never Be Another You (1965) Falling in Love with Jazz (1989) Old Flames (1993) Sonny Rollins + 3 (1995)
With others	Tentets ( Franco Ambrosetti, 1985) Boss Tenor ( Gene Ammons, 1960) Big Brass ( Benny Bailey, 1960) Bash! ( Dave Bailey, 1961) Who Is Gary Burton? ( Gary Burton, 1962) Jazz Lab ( Donald Byrd, 1957) Carter, Gillespie Inc. ( Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie, 1976) Paul Chambers Quintet (1957) More Party Time ( Arnett Cobb, 1960) Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Rhythm in Mind ( Steve Coleman, 1991) Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) ( Sonny Criss, 1968) Straight Ahead (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1976) Collectors' Items ( Miles Davis, 1956) Quiet Kenny ( Kenny Dorham, 1959) The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (1960 [1976]) Opening Remarks ( Ted Dunbar, 1978) Patented by Edison ( Harry "Sweets" Edison, 1960) The Book Cooks ( Booker Ervin, 1960) The Song Book (Booker Ervin, 1964) Chromatic Palette ( Tal Farlow, 1981) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) Gettin' with It ( Benny Golson, 1959) Free (Benny Golson, 1962) The Panther! ( Dexter Gordon, 1970) The Swingin'est ( Bennie Green and Gene Ammons, 1958) Grey's Mood ( Al Grey, 1973–75) It's About Time ( Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Can't Help Swinging (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Drum Suite ( Slide Hampton, 1962) Out of the Afternoon ( Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, 1962) Really Big! ( Jimmy Heath, 1960) New Picture (Jimmy Heath, 1985) Porgy & Bess ( Joe Henderson, released 1997) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Mirage ( Bobby Hutcherson, 1991) Bossa Nova Plus ( Willis Jackson, 1962) Desert Winds ( Illinois Jacquet, 1962) Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960) Let's Swing! ( Budd Johnson, 1960) Heart to Heart ( Elvin Jones, 1980) Blues for Dracula ( Philly Joe Jones, 1958) Detroit – New York Junction ( Thad Jones, 1956) Mad Thad (Thad Jones, 1956–57) A Story Tale ( Clifford Jordan and Sonny Red, 1961) The Adventurer (Clifford Jordan, 1978) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) Booker Little (1960) Vocalese ( The Manhattan Transfer, 1985) Flute Flight ( Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Flute Soufflé (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Dusty Blue ( Howard McGhee, 1960) Reincarnation of a Lovebird ( Charles Mingus, 1960) De Lawd's Blues ( Billy Mitchell, 1980) Smooth as the Wind ( Blue Mitchell, 1960–61) The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960) Jeru ( Gerry Mulligan, 1962) Jive at Five ( Joe Newman, 1960) Good 'n' Groovy (Joe Newman with Frank Foster, 1960) Joe's Hap'nin's (Joe Newman, 1961) Straight Life ( Art Pepper, 1979) The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (1956) Limbo Carnival ( Dave Pike, 1962) Dave Pike Plays the Jazz Version of Oliver! (Dave Pike, 1962) Pony's Express ( Pony Poindexter, 1962) Keep Swingin' ( Julian Priester, 1960) Wisteria ( Jimmy Raney, 1985) Swingin' with Pee Wee ( Pee Wee Russell, 1960) Stable Mates ( A. K. Salim, 1957) Here Comes Louis Smith ( Louis Smith, 1958) Roots ( Idrees Sulieman, 1957) Tate-a-Tate ( Buddy Tate, 1960) Color Changes ( Clark Terry, 1960) Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (1965) Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960) ZT's Blues ( Stanley Turrentine, 1961) The Frank Wess Quartet (1960) Southern Comfort ( Frank Wess, 1962) California Soul ( Gerald Wilson, 1968) Pairing Off ( Phil Woods, 1956) Rights of Swing (Phil Woods, 1961)
Discography

v t e Sonny Rollins
Discography
Studio albums	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 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1 Way Out West Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 The Sound of Sonny Freedom Suite Newk's Time Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders The Bridge What's New? Our Man in Jazz Sonny Meets Hawk! Now's the Time The Standard Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins on Impulse! Alfie East Broadway Run Down Next Album Horn Culture Nucleus The Way I Feel Easy Living Don't Ask Love at First Sight No Problem Reel Life Sunny Days, Starry Nights The Solo Album 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 Sonny, Please
Live albums	A Night at the "Village Vanguard" There Will Never Be Another You The Cutting Edge Don't Stop the Carnival G-Man Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Road Shows, Vol. 1
Other albums	Sonny Side Up

v t e Tommy Flanagan
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, except where noted.
Albums as leader or co-leader	Overseas (1957) Lonely Town (1959) The Tommy Flanagan Trio (1960) Solo Piano (1974) The Tommy Flanagan Tokyo Recital (1975) Trinity (1976) Alone Too Long (1977) Confirmation (1977–78) Eclypso (1977) Montreux '77 (1977) Ballads & Blues (1978) More Delights (1978) Our Delights (1978) Something Borrowed, Something Blue (1978) The Super Jazz Trio (1978) Together (and Kenny Barron, 1978) Tommy Flanagan Plays the Music of Harold Arlen (1978) Something Tasty (1979) Super-Session (1980) The Standard (1980) You're Me (1980) ...And a Little Pleasure (1981) The Magnificent Tommy Flanagan (1981) Giant Steps (1982) Thelonica (1982) The Magic of 2 (and Jaki Byard, 1982) Blues in the Closet (1983) I'm All Smiles (and Hank Jones, 1983) The Master Trio (and Ron Carter, Tony Williams, 1983) Nights at the Vanguard (1986) Jazz Poet (1989) Beyond the Blue Bird (1990) Flanagan's Shenanigans (1993) Lady Be Good ... For Ella (1993) Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones (1993) Sea Changes (1996) Sunset and the Mockingbird (1997)
With Pepper Adams	Motor City Scene (1960) Encounter! (1968) The Master (1980) The Adams Effect (1985)
With Kenny Burrell	Introducing Kenny Burrell (1956) Swingin' (1956) Kenny Burrell (Blue Note, 1956) All Day Long (1957) Kenny Burrell (Prestige, 1957) Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane (1958) Weaver of Dreams (1960–61) Bluesy Burrell (and Coleman Hawkins, 1962)
With John Coltrane	The Cats (no leader,1957) Jazz Way Out ( Wilbur Harden, 1958) Mainstream 1958 (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Tanganyika Strut (Wilbur Harden, 1958) Giant Steps (Coltrane, 1959)
With Art Farmer	Art (1960) Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (1962) The Many Faces of Art Farmer (1964) Group Therapy (New York Jazz Sextet, 1965–66)
With Ella Fitzgerald	Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964) Ella in Hamburg (1965) Sunshine of Your Love (1968) Things Ain't What They Used to Be (And You Better Believe It) (1969) Ella in Budapest (1970) Ella à Nice (1971) Ella Loves Cole (1972) Jazz at Santa Monica Civic '72 (1972) Newport Jazz Festival: Live at Carnegie Hall (1973) Ella in London (1974) Fine and Mellow (1974) Montreux '75 (1975) Montreux '77 (1977)
With Curtis Fuller	Jazz ...It's Magic! (1957) Blues-ette (1959) Sliding Easy (1959) South American Cookin' (1961)
With Coleman Hawkins	At Ease with Coleman Hawkins (1960) Coleman Hawkins All Stars (1960) Night Hawk (and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1960) Back in Bean's Bag (1962) Desafinado (1962) Good Old Broadway (1962) Hawkins! Alive! At the Village Gate (1962) Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Alive! At the Village Gate! (1962) Plays Make Someone Happy from Do Re Mi (1962) The Jazz Version of No Strings (1962) Today and Now (1962)
With Milt Jackson	Bags & Flutes (1957) Bags' Opus (1958) Bean Bags (1958) Vibrations (1960–61) Invitation (1962) Statements (1961) Jazz 'n' Samba (1964)
With J.J. Johnson	J Is for Jazz (1956) Blue Trombone (1957) Dial J. J. 5 (1957) First Place (1957) J. J. in Person! (1958) Pinnacles (1979)
With Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus (1956) There Will Never Be Another You (1965) Falling in Love with Jazz (1989) Old Flames (1993) Sonny Rollins + 3 (1995)
With others	Tentets ( Franco Ambrosetti, 1985) Boss Tenor ( Gene Ammons, 1960) Big Brass ( Benny Bailey, 1960) Bash! ( Dave Bailey, 1961) Who Is Gary Burton? ( Gary Burton, 1962) Jazz Lab ( Donald Byrd, 1957) Carter, Gillespie Inc. ( Benny Carter and Dizzy Gillespie, 1976) Paul Chambers Quintet (1957) More Party Time ( Arnett Cobb, 1960) Movin' Right Along (Arnett Cobb, 1960) Rhythm in Mind ( Steve Coleman, 1991) Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) ( Sonny Criss, 1968) Straight Ahead (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, 1976) Collectors' Items ( Miles Davis, 1956) Quiet Kenny ( Kenny Dorham, 1959) The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (1960 [1976]) Opening Remarks ( Ted Dunbar, 1978) Patented by Edison ( Harry "Sweets" Edison, 1960) The Book Cooks ( Booker Ervin, 1960) The Song Book (Booker Ervin, 1964) Chromatic Palette ( Tal Farlow, 1981) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) Gettin' with It ( Benny Golson, 1959) Free (Benny Golson, 1962) The Panther! ( Dexter Gordon, 1970) The Swingin'est ( Bennie Green and Gene Ammons, 1958) Grey's Mood ( Al Grey, 1973–75) It's About Time ( Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Can't Help Swinging (Jimmy Hamilton, 1961) Drum Suite ( Slide Hampton, 1962) Out of the Afternoon ( Roy Haynes and Roland Kirk, 1962) Really Big! ( Jimmy Heath, 1960) New Picture (Jimmy Heath, 1985) Porgy & Bess ( Joe Henderson, released 1997) The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962) Mirage ( Bobby Hutcherson, 1991) Bossa Nova Plus ( Willis Jackson, 1962) Desert Winds ( Illinois Jacquet, 1962) Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960) Let's Swing! ( Budd Johnson, 1960) Heart to Heart ( Elvin Jones, 1980) Blues for Dracula ( Philly Joe Jones, 1958) Detroit – New York Junction ( Thad Jones, 1956) Mad Thad (Thad Jones, 1956–57) A Story Tale ( Clifford Jordan and Sonny Red, 1961) The Adventurer (Clifford Jordan, 1978) Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958) Booker Little (1960) Vocalese ( The Manhattan Transfer, 1985) Flute Flight ( Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Flute Soufflé (Herbie Mann and Bobby Jaspar, 1957) Dusty Blue ( Howard McGhee, 1960) Reincarnation of a Lovebird ( Charles Mingus, 1960) De Lawd's Blues ( Billy Mitchell, 1980) Smooth as the Wind ( Blue Mitchell, 1960–61) The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery (1960) Jeru ( Gerry Mulligan, 1962) Jive at Five ( Joe Newman, 1960) Good 'n' Groovy (Joe Newman with Frank Foster, 1960) Joe's Hap'nin's (Joe Newman, 1961) Straight Life ( Art Pepper, 1979) The Oscar Pettiford Orchestra in Hi-Fi (1956) Limbo Carnival ( Dave Pike, 1962) Dave Pike Plays the Jazz Version of Oliver! (Dave Pike, 1962) Pony's Express ( Pony Poindexter, 1962) Keep Swingin' ( Julian Priester, 1960) Wisteria ( Jimmy Raney, 1985) Swingin' with Pee Wee ( Pee Wee Russell, 1960) Stable Mates ( A. K. Salim, 1957) Here Comes Louis Smith ( Louis Smith, 1958) Roots ( Idrees Sulieman, 1957) Tate-a-Tate ( Buddy Tate, 1960) Color Changes ( Clark Terry, 1960) Lucky Thompson Plays Happy Days Are Here Again (1965) Stan "The Man" Turrentine (1960) ZT's Blues ( Stanley Turrentine, 1961) The Frank Wess Quartet (1960) Southern Comfort ( Frank Wess, 1962) California Soul ( Gerald Wilson, 1968) Pairing Off ( Phil Woods, 1956) Rights of Swing (Phil Woods, 1961)
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