''Sunny Days, Starry Nights'' is an album by

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Sonny Rollins, released on the

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label in 1984, featuring performances by Rollins with Clifton Anderson,

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Reception

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review by Scott Yanow states: "''Sunny Days, Starry Nights'' as usual finds the great tenor at his best on the two ballads ('I'm Old Fashioned' and Noel Coward's 'I'll See You Again') while the other four originals have been largely forgotten." Music critic Robert Christgau called the album "his most accessible and uncompromised album in more than a decade is soaked in the swinging pan-Caribbean ' calypso' that's been his special pleasure since the '50s..."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Sonny Rollins except as indicated'' # "Mava Mava" - 4:34 # " I'm Old Fashioned" (

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, Johnny Mercer) - 6:28 # "Wynton" - 8:20 # "Tell Me You Love Me" - 6:16 # "

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" ( Noël Coward) - 6:21 # "Kilauea" - 6:59 :*Recorded at

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, on January 23–27, 1984

Personnel

*Sonny Rollins -

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* Clifton Anderson -

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, electric piano, celesta, synthesizer *Russell Blake -

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* Tommy Campbell - drums *Lucille Rollins -

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(tracks 1 & 6)

References

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