Sonny Rollins - The Complete Prestige Recordings - 7 CD's Box Set - 1992

DISC 1 | Playtime 70:36 | RAR 59+53 Mb

1: Elysee
2: Opus V
3: Hilo
4: Fox Hunt
5: Morpheus
6: Down
7: Blue Room - (take 1)
8: Whispering
9: I Know
10: Conception
11: Out Of The Blue
12: Denial
13: Bluing
14: Dig
15: My Old Flame
16: It's Only A Paper Moon


DISC 2 | Playtime 72:04 | RAR 57+55 Mb

1: Time On My Hands
2: Mambo Bounce
3: This Love Of Mine
4: Shadrack
5: On A Slow Boat To China
6: With A Song In My Heart
7: Scoops
8: Newk's Fadeaway
9: Compulsion
10: Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 1)
11: Serpent's Tooth, The - (take 2)
12: 'Round About Midnight
13: In A Sentimental Mood
14: Stopper, The
15: Almost Like Being In Love
16: No Moe
17: Think Of One - (take 1)
18: Think Of One - (take 2)


DISC 3 | Playtime 75:39 | RAR 87+86 Mb

1: Let's Call This
2: Friday The 13th
3: Soft Shoe
4: Confab In Tempo
5: I'll Take Romance
6: Airegin
7: Oleo
8: But Not For Me - (take 1)
9: But Not For Me - (take 2)
10: Doxy
11: Movin' Out
12: Swingin' For Bumsy
13: Silk 'N' Satin
14: Solid


DISC 4 | Playtime 73:45 | RAR 89+85 Mb

1: I Want To Be Happy
2: Way You Look Tonight, The
3: More Than You Know
4: There's No Business Like Show Business
5: Paradox
6: Raincheck
7: There Are Such Things
8: It's All Right With Me
9: In Your Own Sweet Way
10: No Line
11: Vierd Blues


DISC 5 | Playtime 67:46 | RAR 80+75 Mb

1: I Feel A Song Coming On
2: Pent-Up House
3: Valse Hot
4: Kiss And Run
5: Count Your Blessings
6: My Reverie
7: Most Beautiful Girl In The World, The
8: Paul's Pal
9: When Your Lover Has Gone
10: Tenor Madness


DISC 6 | Playtime 65:47 | RAR 79+76 Mb

1: You Don't Know What Love Is
2: St. Thomas
3: Strode Rode
4: Blue 7
5: Moritat
6: I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
7: Kids Know
8: House I Live In, The


DISC 7 | Playtime 70:09 | RAR 84+81 Mb

1: I Remember You (I)
2: My Melancholy Baby (II)
3: Old Folks (III)
4: They Can't Take That Away From Me (IV)
5: Just Friends (V)
6: My Little Suede Shoes (VI)
7: Star Eyes (VII)
8: B. Swift
9: My Ideal
10: Sonny Boy
11: Two Different Worlds
12: Ee-ah
13: B. Quick



Notes: This 7-disc compilation features 90 selections of Sonny Rollins recordings for Prestige from 1949 to 1957. It contains the only recording Sonny Rollins made with John Coltrane.

Personnel: Sonny Rollins (tenor saxophone); Earl Coleman (vocals); Jackie McLean (alto saxophone); Clifford Brown, Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Julius Watkins (French horn); Bennie Green, J.J. Johnson (trombone); Walter Bishop, Ray Bryant, Kenny Drew, Tommy Flanagan, Elmo Hope, Wade Legge, John Lewis, Richie Powell, Horace Silver (piano); Paul Chambers, Leonard Gaskin, Percy Heath, George Morrow, Tommy Potter, Doug Watkins (bass); Kenny Clarke, Roy Haynes, Philly Joe Jones, Willie Jones, Art Taylor (drums).

Guest Artist: John Coltrane; Charlie Parker; Miles Davis; Milt Jackson; Art Blakey; Max Roach; Thelonious Monk; Art Farmer

Producers: Bob Weinstock, Ira Gitler.

Compilation producer: Orrin Keepnews.

Engineers include: Harry Smith, Tom Dowd, Rudy Van Gelder.

Recorded at Apex Studios, New York, New York between May 26, 1949 and December 17, 1951; WOR Studios, New York, New York between January 30 and November 13, 1953; Beltone Studios, New York, New York on January 20, 1954; Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey between June 29, 1954 and December 6, 1956. Includes liner notes by Bob Blumenthal and Charles Blancq.