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The Freelance Years

Thelonious Monk (piano), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Oscar Pettiford (bass), Max Roach (drum), Clark Terry (trumpet), Paul Chambers (bass), Max Roach (drums), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums), Paul Chambers (double bass), Sonny...

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Contents

Monk, T: Brilliant Corners

Work length7:43
$1.10
$1.50
  • Clark Terry, Thelonious Monk (piano), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Oscar Pettiford (bass (vocal)), Max Roach (drum)
  • Recorded: 1956-12-23
  • Recording Venue: New York City

Monk, T: Ba-lue Bolivar Ba-lues-are

Work length13:16
$1.10
$1.50
  • Clark Terry, Thelonious Monk (piano), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Oscar Pettiford (bass (vocal)), Max Roach (drum)
  • Recorded: 1956-12-23
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios

Thelonious Monk, Denzil Best: Bemsha Swing

Work length7:41
$1.10
$1.50
  • Clark Terry (trumpet), Thelonious Monk (piano), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Paul Chambers (bass (vocal)), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Max Roach (drum)
  • Recorded: 1956-12-23
  • Recording Venue: New York City

Monk, T: Pannonica

Work length8:49
$1.10
$1.50
  • Clark Terry, Thelonious Monk (piano), Ernie Henry (alto saxophone), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Oscar Pettiford (bass (vocal)), Max Roach (drum)
  • Recorded: 1956-12-23
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios

Mercer, Johnny: I'm An Old Cowhand

Work length5:40
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Ray Brown (bass guitar), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1991

Andy Hummel: Way Out West

Work length6:29
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Rollins, Sonny: Come, Gone

Work length7:49
$1.10
$1.50
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Isham Jones, Marty Symes: There Is No Greater Love

Work length5:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Peter DeRose, William Hill: Wagon Wheels

Work length10:10
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills: Solitude

Work length7:50
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Mercer, Johnny: I'm An Old Cowhand

Work length10:10
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Rollins, Sonny: Come, Gone

Work length10:27
$1.10
$1.50
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Isham Jones: There Is No Greater Love

Work length5:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 2000

Andy Hummel: Way Out West

Work length6:37
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957-03-07

Rodgers, R: The Boys from Syracuse: Falling in love with love

Work length9:09
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston: My Old Flame

Work length5:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Kenny Dorham: La Villa

Work length7:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Patricia Johnston, Gene de Paul, Don Raye: I'll Remember April

Work length12:04
$1.10
$1.50
  • Kenny Dorham, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Kern: The Last Time I Saw Paris

Work length2:54
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Paul Chambers (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn: Just In Time

Work length3:56
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957

Gus Kahn, Ernie Erdman, Dan Russo: Toot, Toot, Tootsie

Work length4:21
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957

Duke, V: Ziegfeld Follies: What Is There To Say?

Work length4:53
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957

Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer: Dearly Beloved

Work length3:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Sonny Clark (piano), Percy Heath (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Porter, C: Evr'y Time we say Goodbye

Work length3:20
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Sonny Clark (piano), Percy Heath (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Rollins, Sonny: Cutie

Work length5:52
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Clark (piano), Percy Heath (double bass), Roy Haynes (drums)
  • Recorded: 1957

Heusen: It could happen to you

Work length3:44
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957

Sid Wayne, Dee Libbey: Mangoes

Work length5:31
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Recorded: 1957

Rollins, Sonny: Funky Hotel Blues

Work length5:58
$1.10
$1.50
  • Recorded: 1957

Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh: Porgy

Work length4:24
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh: I Must Have That Man

Work length3:56
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Bernie Hanighen, Gordon Jenkins: When A Woman Loves A Man

Work length4:26
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Oscar Brown, Jr.: Strong Man

Work length5:02
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg: Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe

Work length5:54
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Paul Chambers (double bass), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Max Roach (drums), Wynton Kelly (piano), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Weill, K: That's Him

Work length3:23
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Yvain: My Man

Work length3:55
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Arthur Herzog Jr., Billie Holiday: Don't Explain

Work length6:39
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Wynton Kelly (bass (vocal)), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Max Roach (drums), Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone)
  • Recorded: 1957
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh: I Must Have That Man

Work length3:54
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1988
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh: Porgy

Work length4:27
$1.10
$1.50
  • Abbey Lincoln, Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Wynton Kelly (piano), Paul Chambers (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1988
  • Recording Venue: Reeves Sound Studios, New York City

Rollins, Sonny: Sonnymoon For Two

Work length9:06
$1.10
$1.50
  • Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Gil Coggins (piano), Wendell Marshall (double bass), Kenny Dennis (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Heusen: Like Someone in Love

Work length4:58
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Gil Coggins (piano), Wendell Marshall (double bass), Kenny Dennis (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Tchaikovsky: Theme From Symphony No. 6 Pathétique

Work length5:56
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Gil Coggins (piano), Wendell Marshall (double bass), Kenny Dennis (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Willson: Till There Was You

Work length4:56
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Coward, N: Someday I'll Find You

Work length4:38
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Matt Dennis, Tom Adair: Will You Still Be Mine?

Work length2:57
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Warren, H: Shadow Waltz

Work length4:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Willson: Till There Was You

Work length4:58
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1989

Rollins, Sonny: The Freedom Suite

Work length19:33
$1.10
$1.50
  • Oscar Pettiford (double bass), Max Roach (drums)
  • Recorded: 1958

Kern: I've Told Ev'ry Little Star

Work length5:24
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone), Barney Kessel (guitar), Hampton Hawes (piano), Leroy Vinnegar (upright bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1988

Jean Schwartz, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis: Rock A Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody

Work length4:51
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Morgan Lewis: How High The Moon

Work length7:43
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Walter Donaldson, Adamson: You

Work length4:13
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums), Victor Feldman (vibraphone)
  • Recorded: 1959

Spencer Williams, Jack Palmer: I've Found A New Baby

Work length3:37
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Schwartz, Arthur: Alone Together

Work length5:57
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Kern: The Song Is You (from Music in the Air)

Work length5:42
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Hill, Billy: In The Chapel In The Moonlight

Work length6:38
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1959

Walter Donaldson, Adamson: You

Work length4:14
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums), Victor Feldman (vibraphone)
  • Recorded: 1959

Spencer Williams, Jack Palmer: I've Found A New Baby

Work length4:22
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1988

Kern: The Song Is You (from Music in the Air)

Work length6:11
$1.10
$1.50
  • Sonny Rollins, Hampton Hawes (piano), Barney Kessel (guitar), Leroy Vinnegar (double bass), Shelly Manne (drums)
  • Recorded: 1988