The Essential Sonny Rollins - The RCA Years (2005)
Jazz, Hard Bop | MP3 320 kbps CBR | Artworks | 129 min | 300 MB
Label: RCA Victor | Rel: 2005
This handy double-disc set is a streamlined compilation from the six-CD box of Sonny Rollins Complete RCA Victor Recordings. Rollins' tenure with the label coincided with his return from an extended period of inactivity between 1962 and 1964. Before his fine Impulse outings, Rollins began exploring the fringes of modern jazz playing outside. These various situations are represented here to a degree. Obviously, the most notable cuts come off The Bridge, one of his seminal outings, and from What's New, both of which featured guitarist Jim Hall. The more "out" material here comes from Our Man in Jazz and Three in Jazz with Ornette Coleman's sidemen Billy Higgins and Don Cherry the latter album also featured vanguard bassist Henry Grimes.