The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings (CD, Compilation, Remastered) album cover

Sonny Rollins ‎– The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings

Label:
Riverside Records ‎– 5RCD-4427-2
Format:
5 × CD, Compilation, Remastered
Box Set
Country:
US
Released:
2000
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Bop, Hard Bop, Post Bop

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1-1 –Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners
Written-By – Thelonious Monk
 7:45
1-2 –Thelonious Monk Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lue-Are
Written-By – Monk*
 13:19
1-3 –Thelonious Monk Bemsha Swing
Written-By – Best*, Monk*
 7:44
1-4 –Thelonious Monk Pannonica
Written-By – Monk*
 8:52
1-5 –Sonny Rollins I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande)
Written-By – Mercer*
 5:42
1-6 –Sonny Rollins Way Out West
Written-By – Sonny Rollins
 6:31
1-7 –Sonny Rollins Come, Gone
Written-By – Rollins*
 7:52
1-8 –Sonny Rollins There Is No Greater Love
Written-By – Jones*, Symes*
 5:16
1-9 –Sonny Rollins Wagon Wheels
Written-By – Jones*, Symes*
 10:10
2-1 –Sonny Rollins Solitude
Written-By – Ellington*, Delange*, Mills*
 7:53
2-2 –Sonny Rollins I'm An Old Cowhand (Alternate)
Written-By – Mercer*
 10:12
2-3 –Sonny Rollins Come, Gone (Alternate)
Written-By – Rollins*
 10:29
2-4 –Sonny Rollins There Is No Greater Love (Take 2)
Written-By – Jones*, Symes*
 5:15
2-5 –Sonny Rollins Way Out West (Alternate)
Written-By – Rollins*
 6:39
2-6 –Kenny Dorham Falling In Love With Love
Written-By – Rodgers - Hart*
 9:11
2-7 –Kenny Dorham My Old Flame
Written-By – Johnston*, Coslow*
 5:22
3-1 –Kenny Dorham La Villa
Written-By – Kenny Dorham
 7:04
3-2 –Kenny Dorham I'll Remember April
Written-By – Raye*, DePaul*, Johnston*
 12:06
3-3 –Sonny Rollins The Last Time I Saw Paris
Written-By – Hammerstein-Kern
 2:57
3-4 –Sonny Rollins Just In Time
Written-By – Green*, Camden*, Styne*
 3:58
3-5 –Sonny Rollins Toot, Toot, Tootsie
Written-By – Russo*, Erdman*, Kahn*
 4:23
3-6 –Sonny Rollins What Is There To Say?
Written-By – Harburg*, Duke*
 4:55
3-7 –Sonny Rollins Dearly Beloved
Written-By – Kern*, Mercer*
 3:05
3-8 –Sonny Rollins Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Written-By – Cole Porter
 3:23
3-9 –Sonny Rollins Cutie
Written-By – Rollins*
 5:54
3-10 –Sonny Rollins It Could Happen To You
Written-By – Burke - Van Heusen*
 3:46
3-11 –Sonny Rollins Mangoes
Written-By – Libbey*, Wayne*
 5:34
3-12 –Sonny Rollins Funky Hotel Blues
Written-By – Rollins*
 6:01
3-13 –Abbey Lincoln Porgy
Written-By – Fields - McHugh*
 4:26
3-14 –Abbey Lincoln I Must Have That Man!
Written-By – Fields - McHugh*
 3:58
3-15 –Abbey Lincoln When A Woman Loves A Man
Written-By – Hanighen*, Jenkins*, Mercer*
 4:26
4-1 –Abbey Lincoln Strong Man
Written-By – Oscar Brown Jr.
 5:04
4-2 –Abbey Lincoln Happiness Is A Thing Called Joe
Written-By – Harburg*, Arlen*
 5:56
4-3 –Abbey Lincoln That's Him
Written-By – Hill*, Nash*
 3:25
4-4 –Abbey Lincoln My Man
Written-By – Willemetz*, Pollock*, Charles*, Yvain*
 3:57
4-5 –Abbey Lincoln Don't Explain
Written-By – Herzog*, Holiday*
 6:41
4-6 –Abbey Lincoln I Must Have That Man! (Take 3. Alternate)
Written-By – Fields - McHugh*
 3:56
4-7 –Abbey Lincoln Porgy (Take 1, Alternate)
Written-By – Fields - McHugh*
 4:29
4-8 –Sonny Rollins Sonnymoon For Two
Written-By – Rollins*
 9:08
4-9 –Sonny Rollins Like Someone In Love
Written-By – Burke - Van Heusen*
 5:00
4-10 –Sonny Rollins Theme From Tchaikovsky's Symphony Pathetique
Written-By – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
 5:59
4-11 –Sonny Rollins Till There Was You (Take 4)
Written-By – Meredith Willson
 4:58
4-12 –Sonny Rollins Someday I'll Find You
Written-By – Noel Coward*
 4:40
4-13 –Sonny Rollins Will You Still Be Mine?
Written-By – Dennis*, Adair*
 2:59
4-14 –Sonny Rollins Shadow Waltz
Written-By – Dubin*, Warren*
 4:16
4-15 –Sonny Rollins Till There Was You (Take 3, Alternate)
Written-By – Willson*
 4:58
5-1 –Sonny Rollins The Freedom Suite
Written-By – Rollins*
 19:35
5-2 –Sonny Rollins I've Told Ev'ry Little Star
Written-By – Kern - Hammerstein*
 5:26
5-3 –Sonny Rollins Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
Written-By – Schwartz*, Young*, Lewis*
 4:41
5-4 –Sonny Rollins How High The Moon
Written-By – Lewis*, Hamilton*
 7:43
5-5 –Sonny Rollins You
Written-By – Adamson*, Donaldson*
 4:15
5-6 –Sonny Rollins I've Found A New Baby
Written-By – Palmer*, Williams*
 3:39
5-7 –Sonny Rollins Alone Together
Written-By – Schwartz - Dietz*
 5:59
5-8 –Sonny Rollins The Song Is You
Written-By – Kern - Hammerstein*
 5:45
5-9 –Sonny Rollins In The Chapel In The Moonlight
Written-By – Billy Hill
 6:40
5-10 –Sonny Rollins You (Alternate)
Written-By – Adamson*, Donaldson*
 4:15
5-11 –Sonny Rollins I've Found A New Baby (Alternate)
Written-By – Palmer*, Williams*
 4:23
5-12 –Sonny Rollins The Song Is You (Alternate)
Written-By – Kern - Hammerstein*
 6:11

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Notes

Compilation of Sonny Rollins' recordings on Riverside as leader and sideman,
© and ℗ 2000 Fantasy Inc.

Recorded:
#1-1 to 1-4; December 1956 at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
#1-5 to 2-5: March 7, 1957 at Contemporary's Studio, Los Angeles
#2-6 to 3-2: May 21 and 27, 1957 at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
#3-3 to 3-12: June 19, 1957 (3-3, 3-6, 3-12), June 11 & 12, 1957 (other selections) at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
#3-13 to 4-7: October 28, 1957 at Reeves Sound Studios, New York City
#4-8 to 4-10: November 4, 1957 at Beltone Studios, New York City
#4-11 to 5-1: February 1958 at WOR Studio Recordings, New York City
#5-2 to 5-12: October 20 & 22, 1958 at Contemporary's Studio, Los Angeles

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VICJ-60559~563 Sonny Rollins The Freelance Years: The Complete Riverside & Contemporary Recordings ‎(5xCD, Comp, RM + Box) Riverside Records VICJ-60559~563 Japan 2000 Sell This Version

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