Dial "S" for Sonny (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP O&O3465 Shorter’s goal for the album

Shorter’s goal for the album was to use “a wider range of colors and textures” while continuing his explorations of “life and the universe and God

Blue Note is celebrated almost as much for its visionary album art as for its legendary recordings

a pair of duets with two of his favourite vocal partners

On the stunning title track alone the band shifts from free-form exploration into a playful Calypso and back with ease

Dial "S" for Sonny (Classic Vinyl Series): Vinyl LP O&O3465 Shorter’s goal for the albumOne of the finest pianists and composers of the hard bop era, Sonny Clark seemed to arrive fully formed on his supremely swinging debut album Dial S for Sonny recorded for Blue Note in 1957. Clark assembled a top flight sextet for the occasion with Art Farmer on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Wilbur Ware on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. Clark penned four of the albums six tunes including the moody, minor title