Sonny Rollins' "Live in Europe"

[nathan]

Hi folks,

I'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but has anyone heard the Sonny Rollins "Live in Europe" (w/ Cherry, Grimes and Higgins) that was just reissued by Fruit Tree? I can't find much information on it. Any comments on performances and/or sound?

Thanks!

nathan

[erhodes]

Hi folks,

I'm sorry if this has been discussed elsewhere, but has anyone heard the Sonny Rollins "Live in Europe" (w/ Cherry, Grimes and Higgins) that was just reissued by Fruit Tree? I can't find much information on it. Any comments on performances and/or sound?

Thanks!

nathan

Can't comment on the sound quality - haven't heard this issue - but you may be able to identify the session from the list below. This was compiled from Marty Milgrim and Mike Fitzgerald. The commercial issues listed - Moon, Landscape, JazzUp, Magnetic, etc. - are old and out of date but maybe the track listings will be helpful.

None of the old issues, lp or cd, had what I would call good sound but some, notably the JazzUp, were worse than others.

62-0807, NYC, East River Theater

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Bob Cranshaw (b) Billy Higgins (d)

a) Star Spangled Banner

b) Oleo

c) St. Thomas

d) Solitude

Landscape LS2-915– Sonny Rollins / Live Mid 60’s, a-c

63-0115, Copenhagen, Falkonercentret

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

a) Oleo

b) The Bridge

c) You Don’t Know What Love Is

d) Night and Day

e) Without A Song

f) 52nd Street Theme

g) Green Dolphin Street

Moon MCD 053-2, Rollins Meets Cherry, vol. 1, a-e

Moon MCD 054-2, Rollins Meets Cherry, vol. 2, f, g

JazzUp JU-313, Sonny Rollins Quartet In Europe 1963, vol. I, a-d

JazzUp JU-314, Sonny Rollins Quartet In Europe 1963, vol. II, e-g

63-0117, Stockholm

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

a) Oleo

b) Without A Song

c) 52nd Street Theme

d) Valse Hot

Landscape LS2-915– Sonny Rollins / Live Mid 60’s, b-d

63-0119, Paris, Salle Pleyel, 1st concert

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

The Bridge

Oleo

You Don’t Know What Love Is

52nd Street Theme

St. Thomas

Valse Hot

Who Cares

Home Sweet Home (aka There’s No Place Like Home)

Private tape

63-0119, Paris, Salle Pleyel, 2nd concert

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

a) Solitude

b) Green Dolphin Street

c) Without A Song

d) Sonnymoon For Two

e) Everything Happens To Me

f) 52nd Street Theme

Magnetic MRCD 101 (Lux) – Sonny Rollins Quartet / Live In Paris 1963, a-f

JazzUp JU 313 (I) – Sonny Rollins Quartet In Europe 1963, vol. I, b, c

JazzUp JU 314 (I) – Sonny Rollins Quartet In Europe 1963, vol. II, a

Unique Jazz UJ 22 (I) – Sonny Rollins Quartet “Live” In Europe, a-d

63-0129, Rome

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

52nd Street Theme

Doxy

Il Sonny*

TV broadcast, private tape

* Without Cherry. Add the Quartetto Di Lucca (incl. unknown p, vib, g?).

63-0129, Stuttgart

Don Cherry (cor) Sonny Rollins (ts) Henry Grimes (b) Billy Higgins (d)

a) 52nd Street Theme

b) Green Dolphin Street

c) Sonnymoon For Two / Theme

d) Oleo

Jazz Connoisseur JC 106 (I) – Sonny Rollins Quartet / Stuttgart 1963 Concert, a-c