Sunny Days, Starry Nights

Sunny Days, Starry Nights
Sunny Days, Starry Nights
Studio album by Sonny Rollins
Released	1984
Recorded	January 23–27, 1984
Genre	Jazz
Length	38:57
Label	Milestone
Producer	Lucille Rollins
Sonny Rollins chronology

Sunny Days, Starry Nights is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1984, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Mark Soskin, Russell Blake and Tommy Campbell.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Robert Christgau	A^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[5]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Sunny Days, Starry Nights as usual finds the great tenor at his best on the two ballads ('I'm Old Fashioned' and Noel Coward's 'I'll See You Again') while the other four originals have been largely forgotten."^[2] Music critic Robert Christgau called the album "his most accessible and uncompromised album in more than a decade is soaked in the swinging pan-Caribbean 'calypso' that's been his special pleasure since the '50s..."^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

"Mava Mava" - 4:34
"I'm Old Fashioned" (Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer) - 6:28
"Wynton" - 8:20
"Tell Me You Love Me" - 6:16
"I'll See You Again" (Noël Coward) - 6:21
"Kilauea" - 6:59

Recorded at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, on January 23–27, 1984

Personnel

Sonny Rollins - tenor saxophone
Clifton Anderson - trombone
Mark Soskin - piano, electric piano, celesta, synthesizer
Russell Blake - electric bass
Tommy Campbell - drums
Lucille Rollins - cowbell (tracks 1 & 6)

References

^ Sonny Rollins discography, accessed September 25, 2009.
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. "Sunny Days, Starry Nights > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
^ ^a ^b Christgau, Robert. "Sunny Days, Starry Nights > Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved June 26, 2011.
^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide
^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 172. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1235. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[Rollins_disco-1] Sonny Rollins discography, accessed September 25, 2009.

[AM-2] Yanow, Scott. "Sunny Days, Starry Nights > Review". AllMusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.

[RC-3] Christgau, Robert. "Sunny Days, Starry Nights > Review". Robert Christgau. Retrieved June 26, 2011.

[4] The Rolling Stone Album Guide

[RSJRG-5] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 172. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[Penguin-6] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1235. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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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