Sonny Rollins - Road Shows Vol.3 (2014)

Experience Jazz legend Sonny Rollins live with Volume 3 of the critically acclaimed Road Show series. The new album ‘Road Shows, Vol. 3’ contains six tracks recorded between 2001 and 2012 in France, USA and France. Includes the debut recording of a stricking new composition by Rollins, ‘Patanjali’.

About Sonny Rollins:
Rollins received a Grammy Award for his CD "This Is What I Do" in 2000 and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2004. In 2006 he was inducted into the Academy of Achievement at the International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, and in May 2007 was a recipient of the Polar Music Prize, presented in Stockholm. In 2009 he became the third American (after Frank Sinatra and Jessye Norman) to be awarded the Austrian Cross for Science and Art, First Class; and in 2010 he was named the Edward MacDowell Medallist, the first jazz composer to be so honoured. The JazzTimes named Sonny Rollins’ ""Road Shows, Vol. 1"" as “the most important jazz album of 2008”, it was placed at the top of many best-of lists and critics polls. The album ""Road Shows, Vol. 2"" won the JJA Jazz Award for Best Record of the Year in 2012.

Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also as one of the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonists of them all. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated.

About the ‘Road Show’ series:
Over the span of his still-unfolding 65-year career, Rollins has established himself as one of the giants of jazz - a towering influence, a trailblazer, a powerfully creative force in the music. From his earliest masterpieces, such as Saxophone Colossus and Freedom Suite, to his Road Shows archival series of live performances for his Doxy label, Rollins has presented his peerless music without compromise - and to consistent international acclaim.

The Road Shows series has accomplished something that Sonny Rollins has been seeking for most of his career—a recorded-music experience that really is the next best thing to hearing him in person. Each new volume creates the same rush of anticipation that his fans have felt for decades when attending a Rollins concert, with the knowledge that these particular performances have received the imprimatur of the legendarily self-critical saxophonist. Like each Rollins concert, each Road Show is different. Volume 1 inaugurated the series with a program spanning 27 years and including tapes from the collection of dedicated Rollins fan Carl Smith. Volume 2, drawn exclusively from 2010 shows including his instantly legendary birthday concert at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre, was a snapshot of the artist at 80. The present collection might be subtitled 21st-Century Sonny. It spans 11 years and provides a thrilling overview of the music and the musicians that have engaged Rollins in the new millennium.

Tracklist:

1. Biji
2. Someday I'll Find You
3. Patanjali
4. Solo Sonny
5. Why Was I Born
6. Don't Stop the Carnival