CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Resonance, Sonny Rollins

Product: 617270122860

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Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings is the first official release of the European tour of the "saxophone colossus" Sonny Rollins in 1959 with bassist Henry Grimes and drummers Pete La Roca, Kenny Clarke and Joe Harris. Previously only available as a bootleg, this is the first official release in collaboration with Sonny Rollins. Freedom Weaver includes an extensive 56-page booklet with rare photos by Ed van der Elsken, Jean-Pierre Leloir, Bob Parent and many others, a foreword by jazz scholar Bob Blumenthal and new interviews with Rollins himself, Branford Marsalis, James Carter, Joe Lovano, James Brandon Lewis and Peter Brötzmann.