Staying on the Watch

Staying on the Watch
Studio album by Sonny Simmons
Released August 30, 1966 (1966-08-30)
Recorded 1966
Genre Jazz
Length 43:01
Label ESP-Disk Cat # 1030
Producer Bernard Stollman
Sonny Simmons chronology
Staying on the Watch
(1966)
Music From the Spheres
(1968)

Staying on the Watch is the debut album by jazz musician Sonny Simmons. It was released as ESP-1030 on the ESP-Disk label in 1966. The cover photo used is a reverse negative, displaying Simmons playing left handed against the NYC skyline. [1] Colin Larkin, writing in The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz considers it "a masterpiece of new jazz".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Sonny Simmons
  1. "Metamorphosis" - 11:38
  2. "A Distant Voice" - 7:23
  3. "City of David" - 15:03
  4. "Interplanetary Travelers" - 9:20

Personnel

References

  1. Sonny Simmons sessionography accessed December 28, 2012
  2. Larkin, Colin (1999) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz, p. 782 at Google Books. Retrieved 15 May 2013.
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