Images (Sonny Red album)

Images
Images
Studio album by Sonny Red
Released	1962
Recorded	June 25 & December 14, 1961; Plaza Sound Studios, New York City
Genre	Jazz
Label	Jazzland; JLP 74
Producer	Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer
Sonny Red chronology

Images is an album by American saxophonist Sonny Red, featuring tracks recorded in 1961 with Barry Harris, and Blue Mitchell or Grant Green, which was released on the Jazzland label.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Down Beat	^[2]
Allmusic	^[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "The leader, Sonny Red Kyner (alto), never really became the individual strong player that his playing hinted he might develop into. Basically he was in the Charlie Parker-Jackie McLean tradition, and the material here had that spirit, but little punch".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Red except as indicated

"Images" - 6:25
"Blues for Donna" - 4:44
"Dodge City" - 5:16
"Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:41
"Blue Sonny" - 8:29
"The Rhythm Thing"

Recorded at Plaza Sound Studios in New York City on June 25 (tracks 1-3) and December 14 (tracks 4-6), 1961

Personnel

Sonny Red - alto saxophone
Blue Mitchell - trumpet (tracks 1-3)
Grant Green - guitar (tracks 5-6)
Barry Harris - piano
George Tucker - bass
Jimmy Cobb (tracks 4-6), Lex Humphries (tracks 1-3) - drums

References

^ Jazzland Records discography accessed November 12, 2012
^ Down Beat:Down Beat: January 3, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 1
^ ^a ^b Rusch, B. Allmusic Review accessed November 12, 2012

[Jazzland_Records_discography-1] Jazzland Records discography accessed November 12, 2012

[2] Down Beat:Down Beat: January 3, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 1

[Allmusic-3] Rusch, B. Allmusic Review accessed November 12, 2012

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v t e Sonny Red
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Two Altos (with Art Pepper, 1957) Out of the Blue (1959–60) Breezing (1960) A Story Tale (with Clifford Jordan, 1961) The Mode (1961) Images (1961) Sonny Red (1971)
With Donald Byrd	Mustang (1966) Blackjack (1967) Slow Drag (1967) The Creeper (1967)
With others	Curtis Fuller with Red Garland (1957) Jazz ...It's Magic! (Curtis Fuller, 1957) New Trombone (Curtis Fuller, 1957) Saying Something (Bill Hardman, 1961) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Pony's Express (Pony Poindexter, 1962) On the Sunny Side (Paul Quinichette, 1957)

v t e Blue Mitchell
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Big 6 (1958) Get Those Elephants Out'a Here (with Red and Whitey Mitchell, 1958) Out of the Blue (1959) Blue Soul (1959) Blue's Moods (1960) Smooth as the Wind (1960–61) A Sure Thing (1962) The Cup Bearers (1962) Step Lightly (1963) The Thing to Do (1964) Down with It! (1965) Bring It Home to Me (1966) Boss Horn (1966) Heads Up! (1967) Collision in Black (1968) Bantu Village (1969) Blue Mitchell/Soul Village (1971) Vital Blue (1971) Blues' Blues (1972) The Last Tango = Blues (1973) Graffiti Blues (1973) Many Shades of Blue (1974) Stratosonic Nuances (1975) Funktion Junction (1976) African Violet (1977) Mapenzi (1977) Stablemates (1977) Summer Soft (1977)
With Lou Donaldson	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (1952) The Time Is Right (1959) Mr. Shing-A-Ling (1967) Midnight Creeper (1968) Say It Loud! (1968) Everything I Play Is Funky (1970) Pretty Things (1970)
With Philly Joe Jones	Together! (with Elvin Jones, 1961) Drums Around the World (1959) Showcase (1959) Advance! (1978) Drum Song (1978)
With Sam Jones	The Soul Society (1960) The Chant (1961) Down Home (1962) Something in Common (1974–77) Changes & Things (1977)
With Jimmy McGriff	The Worm (1968) Step 1 (1968) A Thing to Come By (1969) Electric Funk (1969)
With Horace Silver	Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Finger Poppin' (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64)
With Stanley Turrentine	A Chip off the Old Block (1963) In Memory Of (1964) Rough 'n' Tumble (1966) The Spoiler (1966) A Bluish Bag (1967) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1967) The Sugar Man (1971)
With others	Portrait of Cannonball (Cannonball Adderley, 1958) Back to the Tracks (Tina Brooks, 1960) Street Singer (Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean, 1960) My Kind of Jazz (Ray Charles, 1970) True Blue (Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Silver Blue (with Al Cohn and Dexter Gordon, 1976) Dolo! (Dolo Coker, 1976) California Hard (Dolo Coker, 1976) Junior's Cookin' (Junior Cook, 1961) Filthy! (Papa John Creach, 1972) Red's Good Groove (Red Garland, 1962) Green Is Beautiful (Grant Green, 1970) Soul Mist! (Richard "Groove" Holmes, 1966) Homecoming! (Elmo Hope, 1961) Montara (Bobby Hutcherson, 1975) The Soul Brotherhood (Charles Kynard, 1969) The Blue Yusef Lateef (Yusef Lateef, 1968) Rakin' and Scrapin' (Harold Mabern, 1968) Jazz Blues Fusion (John Mayall, 1971) Ten Years Are Gone (John Mayall, 1973) Les McCann Ltd. in New York (Les McCann, 1961) Can't Hide Love (Carmen McRae, 1976) Capuchin Swing (Jackie McLean, 1960) Jackie's Bag (Jackie McLean, 1960) Hi Voltage (Hank Mobley, 1967) Captain Buckles (David "Fathead" Newman, 1970) Opus De Don (Don Patterson, 1968) Oh Baby! (Big John Patton, 1965) Breezing (Sonny Red, 1960) Images (Sonny Red, 1961) Good Move! (Freddie Roach, 1963) Takin' Care of Business (Charlie Rouse, 1960) Open House (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Plain Talk (Jimmy Smith, 1960) Sonny Stitt & the Top Brass (Sonny Stitt, 1962) Soul Time (Bobby Timmons, 1960) Steppin' Out! (Harold Vick, 1963) The Caribbean Suite (Harold Vick, 1966) Spectrum (Cedar Walton, 1968) The Electric Boogaloo Song (Cedar Walton, 1969) Beyond Mobius (Cedar Walton, 1976) Money in the Pocket (Joe Zawinul, 1966)