User:Zsasnow/project4 notes

Project Four Notes

This page is the page where I shall keep my notes for my Wikipedia Article. My article shall be about Sonny Rollins' album Plus Four.

Note

I've also noticed that his album Tenor Madness has a really terrible article. Would I be able to do both for the project?

My notes include:

• http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=24877
  • Released in 1956 on Prestige Records, reissued by Concord records
  • Clifford Brown on trumpet, Max Roach on drums, Richie Powell on piano, George Morrow on bass, Sonny Rollins on tenor sax
  • basically was Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet playing on a different label
  • historically significant album in jazz- Clifford Brown and Max Roach died months after in car crash
  • two songs written by Rollins- Valse Hot & Pent-Up House
  • one Irving Berlin song- Count your blessings (Instead of sheep)
    • originally sang by Bing Crosby in White Christmas (1954)

• http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dcfexqtgldhe
  • considered part of the hard bop genre of jazz
  • recorded 3/22/56
  • Track list
    • 1 Valse Hot Rollins 8:38
    • 2 Kiss and Run Coslow 7:10
    • 3 I Feel a Song Coming On Fields, McHugh, Oppenheimer 5:14
    • 4 Count Your Blessings (Instead of sheep) Berlin 2:31
    • 5 Pent-Up House Rollins 8:53

• • release & Re-releases
    • CD Prestige/OJC 243
    • 1991 LP Prestige/OJC 243
    • 1991 CS Prestige/OJC 243
    • 1964 LP Prestige 7291
    • 1956 Prestige PRLP-7038
    • 1956 Prestige 7038
    • Prestige 1524
    • LP Prestige 7038
    • 1956 Prestige/OJC OJC-243
    • 1991 CD Original Jazz Classics 243
    • 2006 CD JVC Victor 41601
    • 2008 CD Universal 9174
    • 2008 CD Universal Japan UCCO9268

• • Info about Sonny Rollins at time of recording
    

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins
can I use Wikipedia as a reference?

Basic Structure of Article

From my observation of the CD articles on Wikipedia, the basic format is

• history and other trivia
• track list and song credits
• musicians (usually referred to as personnel on jazz albums)
• Summary of some reviews and dates underneath picture of album

So I should probably follow that format, so the bulk of my article will be on the history and release information that precedes the track list and personnel. I can include Sonny's style at the time, what groups he had been playing with, and the general feel jazz had at the time. Also, I will include public reaction to the album (if I can find a reputable source of it).