Sonny Rollins

• LIMITED EDITION 6-CD SET!!

• MORE THAN 5 HOURS OF UNISSUED MUSIC!!

• 20-page b0oklet

The 1962 live engagement at the Village Gate marked Sonny Rollins’ first recording ever with Don Cherry, as well as one of the earliest made by the saxophonist following his three-year long self-imposed 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 three 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

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.

• CD ONE [1-3]: July 27, 1962
• CD ONE [4-5]; CD TWO [1] & CD THREE [3]: July 28, 1962 [first set]
• CD TWO [2-3]: July 28, 1962 [second set]
• CD TWO [4]; CD THREE [1-2]: July 28, 1962 [third set]
• CD THREE [4] & CD FOUR [1]: July 29, 1962 [first set]
• CD FOUR [2-3]: July 29, 1962 [second set]
• CD FIVE [1-2]: July 30, 1962 [first set]
• CD FIVE [3]: July 30, 1962 [second set]
• CD SIX July 30, 1962 [third set]

TRACKS:

• ALL TRACKS PREVIOUSLY UNISSUED
• [except CD1, tracks 1, 4-5]

• CD ONE Total Time: 76:48
• 01 OLEO #1 [complete unedited version]
• 02 UNTITLED ORIGINAL A #1
• 03 DOXY #1 /LOVE WALKED IN
• 04 DEARLY BELOVED
• 05 DOXY #2
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• CD TWO · Total Time: 76:45
• 01 SOLITUDE
• 02 OLEO #2
• 03 ST. THOMAS
• 04 HOME SWEET HOME #1
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• CD THREE · Total Time: 75:21
• 01 LOVER
• 02 UNIDENTIFIED BALLAD /ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND into HOME SWEET HOME #2
• 03 DEARLY BELOVED
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• CD FOUR · Total Time: 73:50
• 01 UNTITLED ORIGINAL B
• 02 TEMPUS FUGIT
• 03 UNTITLED ORIGINAL A #2
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• CD FIVE · Total Time:
• 01 UNTITLED ORIGINAL C
• 02 UNTITLED ORIGINAL D
• 03 UNTITLED ORIGINAL E into UNTITLED ORIGINAL A #3
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• CD SIX · Total Time: 53:29
• 01 OLEO #4
• 02 THREE LITTLE WORDS