ALBUM REVIEWS : *** 1/2 SONNY ROLLINS “All the Things You Are” <i> RCA Bluebird</i>

The first six cuts find Rollins in a rare mating with his tenor sax idol, the late, incomparable Coleman Hawkins, and it’s no contest. He is outswung and outsmarted every inch of the way. Where Hawkins (on the left channel) sounds composed, Rollins seems confused; on the title tune he pops and stops, stutters and mutters, and on “Lover Man” he gives in to meaningless squeals. On every level--tone, phrasing, linearity, logic--Hawkins reminds us why he was considered the grandsire of the horn. The other six tunes, with Hawkins absent and Herbie Hancock replacing Paul Bley, have Rollins in superior, noncombative form.