Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJSAU-127.1 Featuring two previously unissued compositions

Featuring two previously unissued compositions it’s a must for all hard-bop fanatics

The cutting-edge 1969 session Medina—which wouldn’t be first released until 1980 as part of the LT Series—documented one of Hutcherson’s most remarkable band line-ups featuring two of his frequent collaborators—Harold Land on tenor saxophone and flute and Joe Chambers on drums—along with Stanley Cowell on piano and Reggie Johnson on bass

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Blind Man takes” its cue from Hancock’s prior hit “Watermelon Man

Never Gonna Run Away

Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJSAU-127.1 Featuring two previously unissued compositionsBlue Note, 1957 Having first appeared on a Blue Note session as a member of Bud Powells Modernists in 1949, Sonny Rollins returned to the label in 1956 to record a series of four tremendous leader dates in less than a year. Recorded in April 1957, the saxophonists 2nd album for Alfred Lion, Vol. 2, found him in esteemed company with J. J. Johnson on trombone, Horace Silver on piano, Paul Chambers on bass, and Art Blakey on drums for a high spirited