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Backgrounder: Sonny Rollins - 'Alfie' (1966)

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Marc Myers
May 02, 2025
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No album better reflects Sonny Rollins's personality than his Alfie: Original Music From the Score, arranged by Oliver Nelson. Recorded in New York in January 1966, the original music has his energy, passion, tenderness and his melancholy in one fell swoop. It's all very mid-1960s.

To learn more about the recording, consult my two-part post on The Making…

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