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...this is:

One of my favourite discs from the second half of the 60s, for sure!

https://www.jazzfestivalbern.ch/index.php?id=26&L=1

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: