The Bridge (album)

The Bridge is an album of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1962 for the label RCA Victor . This is the first album recorded from the musical break that was imposed in 1959. Rollins made ​​his first recording for RCA Victor and forms with this album a new quartet. It is accompanied for the first time guitarist Jim Hall, bassistBob Cranshaw and drummer Ben Riley and Harry Saunders. The album was reissued several times.

Summary
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 * 1 Background
 * 2 Titles
 * 3 Recordings
 * 3.1 References
 * 3.2 References

Background [ edit | edit the code ]
The Williamsburg Bridge in New York, inspired the album.

In the late 1950s celebrity Sonny Rollins continues to grow, however, he decided in 1959 to discontinue its representations on the music scene, having trouble managing this rapid ascent. Rollins performs an August 1959 break November 1961, for both a musical and spiritual search and concentrate on perfecting his art.

At that time he lived with his wife Lucille in an apartment in Grand Street in the neighborhood Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York . He began training with him but soon feels embarrassed to disturb his neighbors with his instrument. In order not to disturb when trains, he began to play saxophone not far from his home on the deck Williamsburg spanning the East River and connects Manhattan to Brooklyn. He will come to train at this location many times and all seasons , .

Titles [ edit | edit the code ]
On his return in 1962 for a first recording with RCA Victor, the album is called The Bridge and integrates the eponymous composition of Sonny Rollins. On this album revisits four standard as Rollins Without a Song and God Bless the Child also performed two original compositions including John S., named in honor of one of his admirers, the jazz critic John S. Wilson . These records do appear no piano, but this feature characterizes several albums Rollins previously recorded in the late 1950s as Way Out Westreleased in 1957 or Freedom Suite (1958). However, substitutes for the first time by the piano guitar .

Bassist Bob Cranshaw performed here with his first recording Rollins while Ben Riley and Harry Saunders (only on track 5) accompanied on drums.

Recordings [ edit | edit the code ]
The songs are recorded during several sessions at RCA Victor Studio in New York. January 30, 1962 Title 1, February 13 (Title 2, 3 and 6) and then the next day to Titles 1 and 4 .