Sonny Rollins Quartet With Don Cherry ‎– Complete Live At The Village Gate 1962

1-1 Oleo #1 [Complete Unedited Version]
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
27:38
1-2 Untitled Original A #1 14:43
1-3 Doxy #1 / Love Walked In
Written-By – George & Ira Gershwin, Sonny Rollins
9:27
1-4 Dearly Beloved [Originally Released Edited Version]
Written-By – Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
8:20
1-5 Doxy # 2
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
16:37
2-1 Solitude
Written-By – Duke Ellington, Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills
15:23
2-2 Oleo #2
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
31:20
2-3 St. Thomas
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
22:24
2-4 Home Sweet Home #1
Written By – Traditional
7:37
3-1 Lover
Written-By – Rodgers & Hart
18:06
3-2 Unidentified Ballad / Alexander’s Ragtime Band Into Home Sweet Home #2
Written By – Traditional
Written-By – Irving Berlin
20:58
3-3 Dearly Beloved [Complete Unedited Version]
Written-By – Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer
18:41
3-4 Oleo #3
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
17:34
4-1 Untitled Original B 32:45
4-2 Tempus Fugit
Written-By – Bud Powell
22:40
4-3 Untitled Original A #2 18:25
5-1 Untitled Original C 20:01
5-2 Untitled Original D 9:12
5-3 Untitled Original E into Untitled Original A #3 24:55
6-1 Oleo #4
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
36:52
6-2 Three Little Words
Written-By – Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby
16:36

ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED – except CD 1 [1, 4-5]-

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

6-CD Box Set in De-Luxe cardboard box. Special packaging for collectors. All the Box-Set in cardboard and in the same size as regular CD (143 mm. long x 125 mm. tall x 14 mm. wide) For perfect fitting in your shelves !

The 1962 live engagement at the Village Gate marked Sonny Rollins’ first recording ever with Don Cherry, as well as one of th earliest made by the saxophonist following his three-year long selfimposed 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, totaling more than five 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».

PERSONNEL:

• SONNY ROLLINS, tenor sax
• DON CHERRY, cornet
• BOB CRANSHAW, bass
• BILLY HIGGINS, drums

Live at the Village Gate, New York, July 27-30, 1962.