The Bridge
Context
Title track of Sonny Rollins's first album after his three-year retirement (1959-1961), during which he practiced alone on the Williamsburg Bridge, hence the title. Recorded in early 1962 at RCA Victor in New York with Jim Hall on guitar, the album came out in April 1962; received with mixed reactions, it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2015.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).
By the same artist
- St. Thomas (Stockholm, 1959)
- Freedom Suite
- Way Out West
- Saxophone Colossus (St. Thomas)
- Tenor Madness