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Sonny Rollins first recorded for Prestige as a teenaged sideman on a 1949 J.J. Johnson session. Seven and a half years later he made his eighteenth and final session for the label. In the intervening period, the promising but uncertain young tenor player from Harlem had matured into a full-toned and powerful artist who was already beginning to be recognized as one of the truly great improvisers in the entire history of jazz.
These seven very full compact discs-offering a total of 90 selections and totaling almost 490 minutes of music-show the rapidly developing young saxophonist as a sideman with his close friends Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, as well as with J.J. Johnson and Art Farmer, and as a leader on ten sessions that feature such jazz immortals as Monk, Max Roach, the legendary Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham, Tommy Flanagan, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, John Lewis, Milt Jackson, and many others. The many highlights of this collection include the only recorded encounter between Rollins and John Coltrane, and the pivotal Saxophone Colossus album.
Track List
CD 1
1 Elysee
2 Opus V 2:42
3 Hilo
4 Fox Hunt 2:47
5 Morpheus 2:22
6 Down 2:48
7 Blue Room - (take 1)
8 Whispering 3:02
9 I Know 2:32
10 Conception 4:02
11 Out of the Blue 6:16
12 Denial 5:40
13 Bluing
14 Dig
15 My Old Flame 7:15
16 It's Only a Paper Moon 5:24
CD 2
1 Time on My Hands 2:41
2 Mambo Bounce 2:25
3 This Love of Mine 2:24
4 Shadrack 2:33
5 On a Slow Boat to China 2:43
6 With a Song in My Heart 3:09
7 Scoops 2:14
8 Newk's Fadeaway 3:15
9 Compulsion 5:40
10 Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 1)
11 Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 2)
12 'Round About Midnight
13 In a Sentimental Mood 3:20
14 Stopper, The
15 Almost Like Being in Love 3:23
16 No Moe 3:31
17 Think of One - (take 1)
18 Think of One - (take 2)
CD 3
1 Let's Call This
2 Friday the 13th
3 Soft Shoe
4 Confab in Tempo
5 I'll Take Romance
6 Airegin 5:01
7 Oleo 3:14
8 But Not For Me - (take 1)
9 But Not For Me - (take 2)
10 Doxy 7:49
11 Movin' Out 4:31
12 Swingin' For Bumsy 5:49
13 Silk 'N' Satin 4:03
14 Solid 6:27
CD 4
1 I Want to Be Happy 4:08
2 Way You Look Tonight, The
3 More Than You Know 8:44
4 There's No Business Like Show Business 6:21
5 Paradox 4:59
6 Raincheck 6:00
7 There Are Such Things 9:31
8 It's All Right With Me 6:09
9 In Your Own Sweet Way
10 No Line
11 Vierd Blues
CD 5
1 I Feel a Song Coming On 5:15
2 Pent-up House 8:53
3 Valse Hot 8:40
4 Kiss and Run 7:12
5 Count Your Blessings 2:29
6 My Reverie 6:05
7 Most Beautiful Girl in the World, The
8 Paul's Pal 9:30
9 When Your Lover Has Gone 6:10
10 Tenor Madness 7:50
CD 6
1 You Don't Know What Love Is 6:29
2 St. Thomas 2:50
3 Strode Rode 7:37
4 Blue 7 11:19
5 Moritat 10:07
6 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face 4:56
7 Kids Know 11:41
8 The House I Live In
CD 7
1 I Remember You (I)
2 My Melancholy Baby (II)
3 Old Folks (III)
4 They Can't Take That Away From Me (IV)
5 Just Friends (V)
6 My Little Suede Shoes (VI)
7 Star Eyes (VII)
8 B. Swift 5:16
9 My Ideal 3:43
10 Sonny Boy 8:22
11 Two Different Worlds 7:38
12 Ee-Ah 6:54
13 B. Quick 9:12