Way Out West (studio album) by Sonny Rollins
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Way Out West is ranked 2nd best out of 40 albums by Sonny Rollins on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sonny Rollins is Saxophone Colossus which is ranked number 640 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,716.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 09/14/2025 11:11 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
80/100 | 09/13/2025 11:20 |  Tamthebam | | 69/100 |
75/100 | 07/25/2025 17:55 | TastyandTemptin | | 72/100 |
45/100 | 07/23/2025 04:15 | Proto | | 34/100 |
80/100 | 07/07/2025 10:07 |  djnizzi | | 80/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.9/100, a mean average of 76.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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This is great. This is not Muzak despite the cover. I am a bit puzzled however about how they decided what takes went on the vinyl and what waited for a completist cd...
Definitely, not a jazz expert. But, I found this album enjoyable given the more melodic tenor soloing over just bass and drums. Features Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. This album is credited with the birth of the jazz technique of "strolling", which is sax soloing over bass and drums without a piano playing chords. Besides the sax work, I particularly enjoy Manne's technique on the ride cymbal on this recording.
Best tracks: Solitude; Come, Gone
Fischman 01/12/2019 21:02
Good album, but I dont find it to be as good as quite a few of Sonny's others.
RoundTheBend 02/12/2016 03:19
Some of the best Jazz I've heard.
Way cool disc with hands down the best album cover in the history of jazz.
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