Sonny Rollins
1963-09-19
Marunouchi Hotel (Hasuonchi Hotel)
Tokyo, Japan

01 Moritat (Mack The Knife)(Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill) 22:06
02 The Way You Look Tonight (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) 1:49
03 When I Fall In Love (Edward Heyman, Victor Young) 4:20
04 Oleo (Sonny Rollins) 23:12
05 On A Slow Boat To China (Frank Loesser) 4:53
06 Valse Hot (Incomplete) (Sonny Rollins) 5:46
07 I Get A Kick Out Of You (Cole Porter) 15:35

Sonny Rollins - tenor sax
Reshid Kmal Ali - trumpet (1 to 4)
Paul Bley - piano (1 to 4)
Henry Grimes - bass (1 to 4)
Roy McCurdy - drums (1 to 4)
Betty Carter - vocal (2-3)

Tetsuo Fushimi - trumpet (5)
Akira Miyazawa - tenor sax (5)
Norio Maeda - piano (5)
Tatsuro Takimoto - bass (5)
Takeshi Inomata - drums (5)

Kenny Dorham - trumpet (6-7)
Ray Bryant - piano (6-7)
George Morrow - bass (6-7)
Max Roach - drums (6-7)

Tracks 6 & 7 are bonus tracks. Broadcast, "Bandstand USA" Café Bohemia, NYC, October 10, 1956.

Label:RLR Records – RLR 88637 (2008)
Format:CD, Unofficial Release

Previously unissued.

This release contains a splendid and never before heard Japan performance by Sonny Rollins in a quintet featuring Paul Bley and, on one track, backed by a Japanese combo. Betty Carter sings two outstanding songs with the rhythm section. As a bonus, we present a rare 1956 broadcast by Rollins with the first incarnation of the Max Roach Quintet after Clifford Brown's tragic death.


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