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	Sonny Rollins: Young Rollins (CD: Proper) Price: £6.99


Sonny Rollins: The Contemporary Leader (CD: Proper, 4 CDs) Compiled and annotated by musician and acknowledged expert Simon Spillett, this 4 CD survey of the greatest living Jazz musician during the most intriguing and productive time in his career. During 1958, at the peak of his powers, Sonny Rollins recorded some of his most diverse music yet. Then, without warning, and confounding all praise heaped on him, he took a baffling two year retirement as he attempted to further perfect his art, emerging in 1962 to even greater critical acclaim. This set contains key studio recordings and legendary live recordings. The box includes a 36 page booklet with a fascinating essay, discographical information and rare photos. (Proper Music) Price: £16.99


	Sonny Rollins: Plays The Blues (CD: Acrobat, 2 CDs) Price: £12.99


Sonny Rollins: Moving Out (CD: Prestige- US Import) Price: £15.49


	Sonny Rollins: Plus 4 (CD: Prestige RVG- US Import) This is Brown-Roach, Inc. (the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet of 1955), led by its tenor saxophonist, Sonny Rollins. Coming on the heels of Worktime, it helped to further Sonny's then-growing reputation. He had already established himself with musicians and now the jazz public was catching on. This set is an exceptional blend of rare material from the standard area–"Kiss and Run," "I Feel a Song Coming On," "Count Your Blessings"–and two Rollins originals–"Valse Hot" and "Pent-Up House." On the latter, Sonny and Brownie combine in one of the most brilliant interactions in the recorded annals of jazz. (Fantasy, Inc.) New RVG remastered edition. Price: £15.49


Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness (CD: Prestige RVG) Saxophonist Sonny Rollins here (1956), in tandem with studio visitor John Coltrane on the opening track, "Tenor Madness," a spirited chase of two tenors through an extended riff blues. Thereafter---with Miles Davis' fine rhythm section in support---Rollins demonstrates his special brilliance: imaginative reworking of the American popular song (e.g. "When Your Lover Has Gone," "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World"). One of jazz's great improvisers. Hear also (and acquire) Saxophone Colossus, for more of same. (Andrew Clark, editor, Riffs & Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology. Continuum Publishing.) Price: £9.99


	Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (CD: Prestige RVG) Tenor-saxist Rollins has the power of infinite re-interpretation: whatever materials he plays become his own. Taken from a great creative period (1956), this album features Rollins with pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins and drummer Max Roach on three originals, a ballad and a song from opera. The calypso-like "St. Thomas" has entered jazz's repertoire; "You Don't Know What Love Is" reveals Rollins' hugely imaginative reworking of popular song; while the minor blues, "Blue Seven," has become the jazz saxophonist's model for incremental improvisation---a masterpiece. Compulsory purchase for any serious collection, and your desert island kit. Colossal, indeed. (Andrew Clark, Editor, Riffs & Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology. Continuum Publishing.) One of the pivotal recordings in bringing about the widespread acceptance of Sonny Rollins as a major figure, Saxophone Colossus inspired critics to write scholarly analyses and fans to revel in the hard-swinging invention, humor, and tender-strength balladry. Up to this album, while most musicians recognized Rollins as one of the new influential forces in the jazz of the Fifties, most critics were carping at Rollins or damning him with faint praise. "St. Thomas," a traditional West Indian melody which Mal Waldron remembered as "The Carnival," was recorded by many artists after Sonny introduced it here, and it remains a jazz standard today. The contributions of Tommy Flanagan's elegant swing, Doug Watkins's steady lift, and Max Roach's most musical accompaniment and soloing (hear "Blue 7") make this a landmark album. (Fantasy, Inc.) A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £9.99


Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (Vinyl LP: Wax Time) Price: £22.99


	Sonny Rollins: Rollins Plays For Bird (CD: Prestige- US Import) Sonny's homage to the (then) recently deceased Charlie Parker opens with a quote from the famous opening to 'Parker's Mood', a medley of tunes from the great man's Verve days and swings in a relaxed fashion with a band including Kenny Dorham and Max Roach, former associates of Bird. One of Rollins' most laid back and enjoyable records. Price: £15.49


Sonny Rollins: Tour De Force (CD: Prestige- US Import) Price: £15.49


	Sonny Rollins: Go West! The Contemporary Records Albums (CD: Craft Recordings, 3 CDs) Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums combines legendary Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins' two studio albums for Lester Koenig's Contemporary Records, Way Out West and And The Contemporary Leaders, with a third disc, Contemporary Alternate Takes. Featuring remastered audio by Bernie Grundman, the set includes an expanded booklet with new notes and interview by Grammy award-winning music historian Ashley Kahn. (Universal Music) Price: £42.99


Sonny Rollins: Way Out West (CD: Contemporary) Rollins poses as black cowboy/ outlaw on CD cover, against backdrop of Mohave Desert; his holster is gunless, his weapon a tenor saxophone. William Claxton's photo suggests Rollins' use of popular myth and song---here, Western folk and cowboy ballad---creates its own frontier. Rollins thought Western gear and terrain "went well with playing unusual songs for a jazz album." Ever seeking new material for improvisation, Rollins runs changes on "I'm An Old Cowhand," "Wagon Wheels," the title-theme, "Way Out West," and two ballads. The saxophone receives total exposure--- only Ray Brown, bass, and drummer Shelly Manne giving crucially sympathetic support. Major album (1957) from one of jazz's most inventive improvisers. (Andrew Clark, editor, Riffs & Choruses: A New Jazz Anthology. Continuum Publishing.) Price: £9.99


	Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time (CD: Blue Note RVG- US Import) Price: £15.99


Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time (Vinyl LP: Blue Note) Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell’s Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. After he began leading his own record dates in the 1950s, Rollins hooked up with Alfred Lion again and recorded four tremendous albums for Blue Note in less than a year between December 1956 and November 1957. Following two quintet dates that were released as Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 and Vol. 2, the saxophone colossus returned to Van Gelder Studio in September 1957 with a quartet comprised of pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Philly Joe Jones to record Newk’s Time (the album title was a reference to his nickname Newk due to his resemblance to Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Don Newcombe). Rollins & Co. romp through a typically eclectic set that includes pieces by his jazz peers (Miles Davis’ “Tune Up” & Kenny Dorham’s “Asiatic Raes”), Broadway showtunes (the saxophone-drums duet “Surrey with the Fringe on Top” & the sumptuous “Namely You”), pop songs (“Wonderful! Wonderful!” which was a hit for Johnny Mathis in 1956), and Rollins’ own spirited original “Blues for Philly Joe.” This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal. (Blue Note Records) Price: £25.99


	Sonny Rollins: A Night at the Village Vanguard - The Complete Masters (CD: Blue Note, 2 CDs) The Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins had already recorded three Blue Note studio dates for Alfred Lion—Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2, and Newk’s Time—by the time he walked down the stairs of the Village Vanguard on November 3, 1957 to record his first-ever live album, as well as the first-ever live album to be recorded at the iconic New York City jazz club: A Night at the Village Vanguard. Rollins’ tour-de-force live trio album was predominantly captured at the evening set featuring Wilbur Ware on bass and Elvin Jones on drums with two pieces coming from the afternoon set featuring Donald Bailey on bass and Pete La Roca on drums. This expanded 2-CD set using Rudy Van Gelder’s never-before-used original 7.5ips master tapes includes a booklet with never-before-seen photos by Francis Wolff; insightful essays by esteemed critics Nate Chinen and Bob Blumenthal; an excerpt from Aidan Levy’s authoritative Rollins biography Saxophone Colossus which provides a riveting behind-the-scenes account of the volatile circumstances surrounding the recording; and a fascinating new interview with Rollins himself reflecting upon the album in conversation with Blue Note President Don Was. (Blue Note Records) A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £16.99


Sonny Rollins: And The Big Brass Trio & Quintet (CD: Fresh Sound) Price: £17.99


	Sonny Rollins: At Music Inn + MJQ at Music Inn (CD: Dreamcovers) Sonny Rollins performing in different formats with members of the Modern Jazz Quartet plus the MJQ playing some tracks on their own during an engagement at Music Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts in August 1958. This music was originally divided into two releases on different labels but now collated together here with the addition of a couple of bonus tracks by the Teddy Edwards Quartet. Limited edition CD presented in mini LP papersleeve cover. (DIscovery Records) Price: £11.99


Sonny Rollins featuring Milt Jackson: Newk And Bags (CD: Acrobat) On paper, at least, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet look like unlikely musical collaborators. The former, full of capricious creativity, was famed for his adventurous spirit, changing his bands and sidemen– and even his own image - from album to album. The MJQ, on the other hand, were a model of orderly consistency – the ultimate disciplined, evening suited concert artists, who, with regular personnel and a steady output of tidily-played albums had, by the late 1950s, already entered the rarefied pantheon of the truly great jazz groups. However, on the few occasions when the MJQ's pianist and musical director John Lewis invited Rollins to augment the band, the results were a memorable win-win, mixing spontaneity and order, with the saxophonist – nicknamed Newk by his friends – finding inspirational common ground with the band’s vibraphone star, Milt Jackson, known to all as Bags. This new Acrobat collection assembles all the extant recordings featuring this partnership: a 1953 EP session, half an LP featuring Rollins guesting with the MJQ rhythm section, taped live in 1958, and a further album side recorded by the full band with both Milt Jackson and Rollins, in which they set down a definitive account of the vibes-man’s classic blues Bags' Groove. As a bonus, there is also a rare and exciting festival set, taped in Germany in 1965, during which Rollins and Jackson appeared with an all-star rhythm section including legendary Jazz Messenger leader Art Blakey. (Discovery Records) Price: £11.99


	Sonny Rollins Trio: Live In Europe 1959 - Complete Recordings (CD: American Jazz Classics, 3 CDs) 3CD set, digitally remastered, deluxe digipak with a 20-page booklet. This release compiles all of Rollins' known recordings from the March 1959 European tour, presented here for the first time ever on a single set. Included here are many hard-to-find performances and even a previously unissued set taped in Frankfurt. Bassist is Henry Grimes, while drummer Pete La Roca was replaced on two occasions by great American drummers who were living in Europe at the time: Joe Harris and Kenny Clarke. The long unavailable Aix-en-Provence concert with Clarke contains Rollins' last existing notes before his self-imposed exile from music. By that time the saxophonist felt frustrated, perceiving what he considered his own musical limitations, and right after this tour he would take the first - and most famous - of his musical sabbaticals. Rollins ventured to the Williamsburg Bridge to practice and didn't record again until his 1962 comeback album The Bridge. This set contains Rollins' only existing versions of "A Weaver of Dreams", "Lady Bird", "Cocktails for Two", and "Stay as Sweet as You Are". (Proper Music) Price: £24.99


Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry: Complete Live at The Village Gate 1962 (CD: Fingerpoppin, 6 CDs) The 1962 live engagement at the Village Gate marked Sonny Rollins' first recording ever with Don Cherry, as well as one of the earliest made by the saxophonist following his three-year long self-imposed musical exile. It was all recorded in a piano-less quartet format with Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. While only three tunes from the gig ("Dearly Beloved" in a highly edited form) were included on the famous LP Our Man in Paris (RCA Victor LPM 2612), this 6-CD collection adds all existing music taped during those live sessions, totalling more than three hours of previously unreleased material in brilliant stereo sound. Among the many highlights here are the unedited "Dearly Beloved" (which is 10 minutes longer than the LP version), the issued "Oleo" with an extra minute at the beginning, Rollins' only known reading of "Alexander's Ragtime Band", and "Home Sweet Home", plus extended renditions of songs he only rarely recorded, such as "Solitude" and "Love Walked In". (Proper Music) Price: £36.99


	Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (CD: Columbia) Price: £5.99


Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (Vinyl LP: Wax Time) Limited edition, high definition 180g vinyl LP. Price: £22.99


	Sonny Rollins: Bossa Nova (CD: Essential Jazz Classics) Originally issued as What’s New? (RCA Victor LSP-2572), with the subtitle “Sonny Rollins brings to jazz a new rhythm from South America,” on the album presented here the saxophonist explored Latin rhythms during the heights of the Bossa Nova craze. This was Rollins’ second album after his three-year long self-imposed musical exile (following The Bridge), and again featured him with Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Ben Riley on drums, plus added percussionists, among them the great Candido Camero. A complete 1958 date featuring Rollins in a quartet format along with three members of the Modern Jazz Quartet has been added as a bonus. (Proper Music) Price: £12.99


Sonny Rollins: On Impulse! (CD: Impulse) Price: £9.99


	Sonny Rollins: On Impulse! (Vinyl LP: Impulse) The first of Sonny’s albums for Impulse!, this 1965 collection was arguably the tenor hero’s best for the label, an intense, freewheeling set with the tenor sax master attacking five standards and in the process producing some of his most intense performances on record. Taped at the Van Gelder Studio in one marathon session on July 8th 1965, this electrifying Impulse! Records debut also featured Ray Bryant on piano and Mickey Roker on drums. (Universal Music) Price: £25.99


Sonny Rollins: Alfie (CD: Impulse) Original music from the film score, featuring Rollins alongside J.J. Johnson, Phil Woods, Kenny Burrell and Oliver Nelson. Price: £9.99


	Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down (CD: Impulse) Price: £9.99


Sonny Rollins: The Impulse Story (CD: Impulse) Price: £9.99


	Sonny Rollins: Rollins In Holland (CD: Resonance, 2 CDs) 'Rollins In Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings' is Resonance Records' first archival release from the Saxophone Colossus himself, Sonny Rollins. Released in partnership with the Nederlands Jazz Archief, this deluxe 2CD is officially sanctioned by Rollins and is comprised of three different previously unissued performances with bassist Ruud Jacobs and drummer Han Bennink in May of 1967 at Vara Studio in Hilversum, the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts in Arnhem and a televised performance at the Go-Go Club in Loosdrecht. 'Rollins In Holland' includes an extensive booklet with never-before-published photos from each venue; essays by Aidan Levy (currently writing a biography of Sonny Rollins for Da Capo Press) and Dutch jazz journalist / producer Frank Jochemsen; plus interviews with Sonny Rollins, Han Bennink, a remembrance of Ruud Jacobs and more. Meticulous high-res transfer and sound restoration from the original tape reels. (Resonance Records) Price: £23.99


Sonny Rollins: Horn Culture (CD: Milestone- US Import) Price: £15.49


	Sonny Rollins: Don't Stop The Carnival (CD: Milestone- US Import) Price: £15.49


Sonny Rollins: Sunny Days, Starry Nights (CD: Milestone- US Import) Price: £15.49


	Sonny Rollins: +3 (CD: Milestone- US Import) Price: £15.49


Sonny Rollins: This Is What I Do (CD: Milestone- US Import) "This Is What I Do is unmistakable, and great Sonny Rollins" (The Penguin Guide To Jazz) A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £15.49


	Sonny Rollins: Without A Song- The 9/11 Concert (CD: Milestone- US Import) Price: £15.49


Sonny Rollins: Sonny Please (CD: EmArcy) Price: £13.99


	Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol.1 (CD: EmArcy) Sonny Rollins- the original Saxophone Colossus- is back once again with an exciting first volume of live recordings taken from his recent world tours to sold out venues and ecstatic receptions across the globe. Featuring his fantastic band playing many of his classic tunes as well as new material, this is Sonny in his latter prime. (Universal Jazz) Price: £13.99

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