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Sonny Rollins - Way Out West

(Contemporary/Fantasy/ZYX OJCCD-337-2, 1987)

Track list:

1. I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) (Mercer) 5:42

2. I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande) (alt take) (Mercer) 10:09

3. Solitude (DeLange, Ellington, Mills) 7:52

4. Come, Gone (alt take) (Rollins) 7:53

5. Come, Gone (Rollins) 10:29

6. Wagon Wheels (DeRose, Hill) 10:11

7. There Is No Greater Love (Jones, Symes) 5:17

8. Way Out West (Rollins) 6:30

9. Way Out West (alt take) (Rollins) 6:37

Personnel:

Sonny Rollins: tenor sax

Ray Brown: Bass

Shelly Manne: Drums

Recorded at Contemporary's Studio in Los Angeles, March 7, 1957.

Produced by Lester Koenig

Remastered at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, 1988.

The cover photo of Rollins is by William Claxton, internationally known Weast Coast jazz photographer. It was Rollins' idea to celebrate his first trip West posing Stetson hat, holster and horn.

In 1956 Rollins made his biggest move, joining the famous ensemble of Max Roach and Clifford Brown, then formed his own legendary pianoless trio with bassist Wilbur Ware or Donald Bailey and drummer Elvin Jones or Pete La Roca in 1957, doing recorded sessions at the Village Vanguard. Awards came from Down Beat and Playboy magazines, and recordings were done mainly for the Prestige and Riverside labels, but also for Verve, Blue Note, Columbia, and Contemporary Records, all coinciding with the steadily rising star of Rollins. Pivotal albums such as Tenor Madness (with John Coltrane), Saxophone Colossus (with longstanding partner Tommy Flanagan), and Way Out West (with Ray Brown and Shelly Manne), and collaborations with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Clark Terry, and Sonny Clark firmly established Rollins as a bona fide superstar. He also acquired the nickname "Newk" for his facial resemblance to Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe.

Scott Yanow wrote:

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The timeless Way out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the following year). Joined by bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, Rollins is heard at one of his peaks on such pieces as "I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)," his own "Way out West," "There Is No Greater Love," and "Come, Gone" (a fast stomp based on "After You've Gone"). The William Claxton photo of Rollins wearing Western gear (and holding his tenor) in the desert is also a classic. The Contemporary re-release appends three bonus tracks, all of them alternate takes.

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