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Sonny Rollins: Newk's Time. Blue Note CDP 7 84001 2 [US 1990]

The only Mosaic set I bought in LP then bought again when it came out on cd back when Mosaic issued its first cd sets. I don't remember whether "Blue Horizon" is on that first disc, but I could listen to that one forever.   Now digging some Texas tenor:  

I enjoy reading Wilson’s reviews. He does not mince his words. I have gone through quite a few issues of High Fidelity (online) and found some interesting albums reading his reviews.

Continuing my momentum from the end of last month, I've managed to post well before the end of the month. Thanks for putting it together! I enjoyed everything. 1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. I enjoy the sax, but not a big fan of the guitar with that decay/echo. Wild guess: Seamus Blake and Kurt Rosenwinkel? 2. Don't know a lot of vibraphone and bass duos, so my guess is Walt Dickerson and Richard Davis. Davis certainly plays arco in some duets with pianists I've heard. 3. All I can say is it's a song composed by a West Coast jazz musician. I know Phineas Newborn does a cover on the Newborn Touch album. Bluesy and groovy. Nice. 4. Gigi Gryce! I think this is from one of his three Prestige/New Jazz albums with Richard Williams and Richard Wyands. 5. I'm sure I've heard Coltrane play this tune. Nice to hear a bass clarinet. No ideas. 6. A standard, familiar tune. I forgot the name of course. Relaxed but pleasant. Maybe a bit tepid, in that I enjoyed it but it doesn't quite grab me. 7/8/9/10. No ideas. I also forgot the name of the bebop tune in 10... 11. Romantic waltz. Prominent bass. I guess for that reason it puts in my mind John Hicks's covers of Pas de Trois, but it's not the same song and it's not Hicks. No ideas. 12. The tenor is coming out of blues or R&B or something along those lines. How about King Curtis? 13. Lovely standard song. No ideas on the guitars. 14. Archie Shepp and Horace Parlan! I can't keep the names of the spirituals straight, but I'm sure it's from Goin' Home, a gorgeous album. 15. Feels good. Could this be the Louis Hayes group with Abraham Burton and Steve Nelson? David Hazeltine wouldn't have been my first guess for the pianist, so I'm hesitant. 16. The trumpet is making me think of Wallace Roney. And maybe Billy Pierce on tenor? I think I enjoyed the rhythm section the most.  

My understanding is that this is a Dizzy Gillespie composition.  Isn't this the one that Art Blakey says he saw Dizzy Gillespie compose on.a garbage can?   Lennie Tristano's recording of Interlude dates from October, 1946.  Gillespie had already recorded it several times by then, including the famous session with Charlie Parker.   Keystone could have given it a different title for various reasons a) by mistake, b) to avoid paying royalties, c) because Lennie Tristano forgot the title. John