ROLLINS SONNY/BRIDGE

Descripción

LIMITED 180GM VINYL LP PRESSING INCLUDING DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. THERE IS AN EXTENDED GAP IN SONNY ROLLINS DISCOGRAPHY BETWEEN 1959 AND 1962 IN WHICH HE VOLUNTARILY DECIDED NOT TO PLAY IN PUBLIC. NO RECORDINGS EXIST FROM THIS PERIOD AFTER THEWHICH WAS NOT THE REVOLUTIONARY NEW JAZZ APPROACH MANY EXPECTEDWAS MIXED. ROLLINSWHO HAD BEEN CONSIDERED GROUNDBREAKING IN HIS THEMATIC IMPROVISATIONSWAS SUPPLANTED IN CRITICAL BUZZ BY THE GROWING POPULARITY OF ORNETTE COLEMANS FREE JAZZ. HOWEVERIF NOT A TREMENDOUS DEPARTURE FROM ROLLINS EARLIER STYLETHE ALBUM WAS NEVERTHELESS QUITE SUCCESSFUL. HE WOULD RECORD A SECOND STUDIO ALBUM DURING THIS PERIOD IN APRIL 1962. IN JULY OF THE SAME YEAR HE WOULD BE PROFESSIONALLY TAPED AT THE VILLAGE GATE IN NEW YORK. THE RECORDINGSWHICH WERE ISSUED UNDER THE TITLE OF OUR MAN IN JAZZMARKED THE FIRST EXISTING TESTIMONIES OF ROLLINS COLLABORATION WITH DON CHERRYWITH WHOM HE WOULD OFTEN PLAY IN THE EARLY SIXTIES. THIS ALBUM IS PRESENTED HERE FEATURING ON THE COVER DAVID MCLANES CLASSIC PHOTO SHOWING SONNY AT THE VERY WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE.