Our Man Sonny...Village Gate 1962...

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

I may be the last to know this but ALL the recorded nights from Our Man in Jazz are now floating on the net....

July 27
1 - Intro + Oleo
2 - Unknown A (first version) (see
note)
3 - Doxy - Love Walked In
July 28
1 - Dearly Beloved
2 - Doxy
3 - Solitude
4 - Oleo
5 - Saint Thomas
6 - Intro + Lover
7 - Stay as Sweet as You Are
(formerly Unknown 1) +
Alexander's Ragtime Band +
Presentation of Musicians by
Sonny Rollins
8 - Home, Sweet Home (formerly
Unknown 2)
July 29
1 - Intro + Unknown 3
2 - Oleo
3 - Toot, Toot, Tootsie, Goodbye
(formerly Unknown 4)
4 - Unknown A (second version)


These are unissued tracks from
the same sessions that produced
the album Our Man in Jazz .
Live recordings at the Village
Gate, New York City, 27 to 30 July,
1962. The material is no bootleg
but the original production tapes,
so the sound quality is excellent.
I've edited some boring long
applauses and noisy beginnings,
and connected fragments,
otherwise the original sound is
intact. Many thanks to the
friend who prefers to remain
anonymous, who passed the
original tracks.
Any indication about the
"unknowns" will be greatly
appreciated...
Sonny Rollins, tenor sax -
Don Cherry, trumpet - Bob
Cranshaw, bass - Billy Higgins,
drums.

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Including on You Tube...A very long St Thomas....Tres superb.

BN.

Theres also a brilliant 62 date by Monk at the Gate...released on Xanadu then pulled.

[Serial_Apologist]

Oh yes - that period following The Bridge up to and maybe just past Alfie, but before Sonny got involved in Fusion, which didn't really suit him. Some of my favourite sax playing anywhere.

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Oh yes - that period following The Bridge up to and maybe just past Alfie, but before Sonny got involved in Fusion, which didn't really suit him. Some of my favourite sax playing anywhere.

Mine too. Excellent sound on these and stand out (long) solos and work from Newk and the wonderful Higgins. Cherry can be a bit thin in tone but is a good thinking foil none the less. Would have made a superb double album at the time. I think RCA were unsure at just what they had bitten off with Sonny's more "out" playing!

BN.

[Serial_Apologist]

This, which I'm lucky to have, is a must buy, in my view: a session from a Tokyo visit in 1963, along with Paul Bley, Betty Carter on two tracks - tripping over herself on a less than 2 minutes helter-skelter "The Way You Look Tonight", Paul Bley making few concessions to the structures, and, for so early, extraordinary trumpet playing from a Reshid Kmal Ali (who he???) Two additional tracks tacked on the end are from a 1956 session with Kenny Dorham, Ray Bryant, George Morrow and Roach - the first after Clifford's death, it says:

http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-1963-Sonny-Quintet-Rollins/dp/b001642110

Other available sources too.