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And CDs:

One of the discs with largest amount of weird reissues from different legit and non-legit labels. Here’s just a sample: LPs:

I will stop my Sonny Rollins chronological listening binge for a few days. Milestones years will come next week!

Sonny Rollins’ 1966 recordings:

It also ranks at the top of the "after 'The Bridge'" recordings for me, possibly paired with 'Sonny Meets Hawk!', which is a personal fav of mine, being a diehard Coleman Hawkins fan and despite the flaws that it unmistakably has... And Ray Bryant does a great job, which is not very easy for a pianist, having Sonny on board.

Now listening to Sonny Rollins’ 1965 two Impulse recordings:

Exhausted after listening to some of the 1963 recordings (the SR-Don Cherry Quartet material was hard stuff for these ears!), now heading to the 1964 RCA-Victor recordings, grouped in the following three discs:

From 1963, a few live tracks from and one of my desert island recordings... ...including the three tracks without Hawk and featuring Don Cherry that were originally issued in this odd LP (odd because the reason for this bundling of different musicians evades me):

Of course, you're welcome to interfere! Except for a few masterworks (e.g.: Village Vanguard), I am skipping the live performances for the sake of "feasability". In any case, I do not have the 1959 Aix-en-Provence live recording, so I will put it on my "to-buy" list...

Needless to say, Sonny Rollins' 1962 return was a milestone in the evolution of jazz...

31 August 1958 recordings at the Music Inn, from the following discs: And Sonny's last studio recording (Oct. 1958) until his comeback in 1962:

And Max Roach!!!

1958 starts with yet another landmark studio recording by Sonny Rollins piano-less trio: Followed by another of my personal favs:

Piano Sonata Nº1 from Disintoxicating from my Sonny Rollins summer orgy...

Now finishing Sonny Rollins' 1957 recorded output with: (one of the best live albums, ever!) (Period disc shared with Thad Jones -side B-) (plus the December 11, 1957 session -Wheatleigh Hall and Sumphin'-)

More 1957 Sonny Rollins:

More 1957 Sonny:

There is no better way to start the day than this: early 1957 Sonny Rollins sessions...

And finally, the remaining three studio recordings from 1956 with Sonny Rollins on board:

More Sonny Rollins in 1956:

A fav o’mine! 👍🏿

Next are two landmark recordings by our man in jazz:

Starting with Sonny Rollins recordings from 1956: Plus one session led by Miles Davis included in the Collectors’ Items compilation. I do not have any of the live recordings of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet from 1956 issued by Philology (Brownie’s Eyes). But I have also added to my playlist these two live recordings released by RLR: