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Thursday, March 5, 2026

Sonny Rollins - The Freelance Years - The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings - Box Set 5CDs

Tracklist: 

CD 1
1. Brilliant Corners
2. Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are
3. Bemsha Swing
4. Pannonica
5. I'm An Old Cowhand
6. Way Out West
7. Come, Gone
8. There Is No Greater Love
9. Wagon Wheels

CD 2
1. Solitude
2. I'm An Old Cowhand [Alternate Take]
3. Come, Gone (Alternate Take)
4. There Is No Greater Love (Take 2)
5. Way Out West (Alternate Take)
6. Falling In Love With Love
7. My Old Flame

CD 3
1. La Villa
2. I'll Remember April
3. The Last Time I Saw Paris
4. Just In Time
5. Toot, Toot, Tootsie! (Goo'Bye)
6. What Is There To Say?
7. Dearly Beloved
8. Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
9. Cutie
10. It Could Happen To You
11. Mangos
12. Funky Hotel Blues
13. Porgy
14. I Must Have That Man
15. When A Woman Loves A Man

CD 4
1. Strong Man
2. Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
3. That's Him
4. My Man
5. Don't Explain
6. I Must Have That Man (Take 3)
7. Porgy (Take 1)
8. Sonnymoon For Two
9. Like Someone In Love
10. Theme From Tchaikovsky's Pathetique
11. Till There Was You (Take 4)
12. Someday I'll Find You
13. Will You Still Be Mine?
14. Shadow Waltz
15. Till There Was You (Take 3)

CD 5
1. The Freedom Suite
2. I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
3. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie..
4. How High The Moon
5. You
6. I Found A New Baby
7. Alone Together
8. The Song Is You
9. In The Chapel In The Moonlight
10. You (Alternative Take)
11. I Found A New Baby (Alternate Take)
12. The Song Is You (Alternate Take)

Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins
Alto Saxophone – Ernie Henry (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-4)
Bass – Leroy Vinnegar (tracks: 5-2 to 5-12), Oscar Pettiford (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-4, 2-6 to 3-2, 4-11 to 5-1), Paul Chambers (3) (tracks: 1-3, 3-3 to 3-5, 3-7, 3-8, 3-10, 3-11 to 4-7), Percy Heath (tracks: 3-3 to 3-9, 3-11, 3-12), Ray Brown (tracks: 1-5 to 2-5), Wendell Marshall (tracks: 4-5 to 4-10)
Celesta – Thelonious Monk (tracks: 1-4)
Drums – Kenny Dennis (tracks: 4-5 to 4-10), Max Roach (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4, 2-6 to 3-2, 3-10, 3-13 to 4-7, 4-11 to 5-1), Roy Haynes (tracks: 3-3 to 3-9, 3-11, 3-12), Shelly Manne (tracks: 1-5 to 2-5, 5-2 to 5-12)
Guitar – Barney Kessel (tracks: 5-2 to 5-12)
Leader, Vocals – Abbey Lincoln (tracks: 3-13 to 4-7)
Piano – Gil Coggins (tracks: 4-5 to 4-10), Hampton Hawes (tracks: 5-2 to 5-12), Hank Jones (tracks: 2-6 to 3-2), Sonny Clark (tracks: 3-4 to 3-9, 3-11, 3-12), Thelonious Monk (tracks: 1-1 to 1-4), Wynton Kelly (tracks: 3-13 to 4-7)
Trombone – Jimmy Cleveland (tracks: 4-5 to 4-10)
Trumpet – Clark Terry (tracks: 1-3), Kenny Dorham (tracks: 2-6 to 3-2, 3-13 to 4-7)
Vibraphone – Victor Feldman (tracks: 5-5, 5-10)

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