Alfie's Theme

Sonny Rollins · 1966 · Alfie (1966), partition de Rollins arrangée par Oliver Nelson

Context

In January 1966, Sonny Rollins recorded for Impulse! a score intended for the British film Alfie. The orchestra is conducted by Oliver Nelson, with J. J. Johnson on trombone and Kenny Burrell on guitar. The theme opens the album, running 10 minutes on the vinyl record.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Jazz in film and on screen, Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Jazz in film and on screen: Cool (Birth of the Cool), Third stream, Modern big bands.

By the same artist

• The Bridge (1962)
• St. Thomas (Stockholm, 1959) (1959)
• Freedom Suite (1958)
• Way Out West (1957)
• Saxophone Colossus (St. Thomas) (1956)
• Tenor Madness (1956)

Sources

• EN: Alfie (Sonny Rollins album)

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