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Sonny Rollins - At Night At the Village Vanguard (Blue Note Records 1957)

Located on 7th Avenue just below West 11th Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, the Village Vanguard has been the seat of live jazz since the 1940s. Ninety-one live recordings have been made at the Vanguard between 1957 and 2001, chronicling the whole of the history of jazz. What was the first live recording made at this fabled club, one might ask?

Sonny Rollins' A Night At The Village Vanguard.

By 1957, Sonny Rollins had already been on the New York jazz scene for a number of years. Born in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem, Rollins first studied piano before changing to tenor saxophone. After rehearsing with the Thelonious Monk quartet in late 1948, Rollins was to make his recording debut backing vocalist Babs Gonzalez on a 1949 recording. During that same year, Rollins appeared with Bud Powell and Fats Navarro. Throughout the early to middle 1950s, Rollins recorded with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Coleman Hawkins, and John Coltrane. Rollins was a member of the famous Clifford Brown Max roach combo before Brown's untimely death.

Rollins recorded first as a leader on December 16, 1956 (Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 Blue Note 81542), though he has since been credited with about a dozen releases before this date, those including Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness. Sonny Rollins, Volume 2 (Blue Note 81558) was released in early 1957, followed by the pianoless trio date Way Out West (Contemporary/OJC 337), recorded on March 7, 1957. By the time November of 1957 rolled around, Rollins was ready to take his trio concept to the Village Vanguard and record the performances. - All About Jazz

1. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise 8:05 Sonny Rollins (cover shown)
2. Samba Triste 3:19 Bobby Timmons
3. Volga Boatman 3:55 Ahmad Jamal
4. Ptah, the El Daoud 14:00 Alice Coltrane
5. The Murphy Man 7:33 Lee Morgan
6. Conference of the Birds 4:43 Dave Holland Quartet
7. Milestones 10:20 Eric Kloss
8. Safari 2:51 Horace Silver
9. Blue Skies 2:54 Jutta Hipp
10. Haitian Fight Song 12:03 Charles Mingus
11. Mama's Place 2:10 Bing Day
12. The Talking Drum Looks Ahead 3:39 Guy Warren Sounds
13. Fate 5:21 The Mastersounds With Wes Montgomery
14. George's Dilemma 5:38 Clifford Brown w/ Max Roach Quintet
15. Irina 7:20 Bobby Hutcherson
16. Igbesi Aiye (Song Of Praise To God) 13:23 Solomon Ilori And His Afro-Drum Ensemble
17. Suffering 5:13 Ahmed Abdul-Malik
18. Togo 5:29 Don Cherry
    
19. Prayer 0:57 Art Blakey And The Afro-Drum Ensemble
20. Love, The Mystery Of 9:26 Art Blakey And The Afro-Drum Ensemble
21. Heywete 5:17 Tesfa Maryam Kidané
22. Set Alamenem 5:28 Girma Beyene
23. Africa 3:27 The Gaylads
    
24. Ene Negn Bay Manesh 4:02 Girma Beyene
25. L'agguato 2:39 Stelvio Cipriani
26. Musical Silt 4:00 Hailu Mergia
27. Nana 3:35 Blind Roger Hays
28. Tabu 4:43 Don Cunningham
29. Moses 3:07 Afro-Blues Quintet + One
30. Salsa de Santa Rosa 6:00 Quintessence
31. Yebo Edi Pachanga 3:07 Orchestre Tembo
32. El Marqués 7:11 Quinteplus

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