Falling in Love with Jazz

Falling in Love with Jazz is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1989, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson, Bob Cranshaw, Mark Soskin, Jerome Harris and Jack DeJohnette with Branford Marsalis, Tommy Flanagan, and Jeff Watts standing in on two tracks.[1]

Falling in Love with Jazz
Studio album by Sonny Rollins
Released	1989
Recorded	June 3, August 5 & September 9, 1989
Genre	Jazz
Length	46:29
Label	Milestone
Sonny Rollins chronology
Dancing in the Dark (1987) Falling in Love with Jazz (1989) Here's to the People (1991)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album an "average effort from Sonny Rollins and his regular sextet".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated

1. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:42
2. "Tennessee Waltz" (Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart) - 6:18
3. "Little Girl Blue" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 7:41
4. "Falling in Love with Love" (Hart, Rodgers) - 4:49
5. "I Should Care" (Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston) - 7:33
6. "Sister" - 7:03
7. "Amanda" -5:47

• • Recorded in NY on June 3 (tracks 1 & 5), August 5 (tracks 2 & 3) and September 9 (tracks 4, 6 & 7), 1989

Personnel

• Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone
• Branford Marsalis: tenor saxophone (tracks 1 & 5)
• Clifton Anderson: trombone(tracks 4, 6 & 7)
• Tommy Flanagan: piano (tracks 1 & 5)
• Mark Soskin: piano (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
• Bob Cranshaw: electric bass (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
• Jerome Harris: electric bass (tracks 1 & 5), guitar (tracks 2 & 3), electric guitar (tracks 4, 6 & 7)
• Jack DeJohnette: drums (tracks 2-4, 6 & 7)
• Jeff Watts: drums (tracks 1 & 5)

References

1. Sonny Rollins discography accessed 22 September 2009
2. Yanow, Scott. "Falling in Love with Jazz > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 26, 2011.