Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) MB-Invisible singing with effortless soul and

singing with effortless soul and turning in some very tasty organ solos

along with keyboardists Joe Sample and Bill Henderson III

Backing him on the date were both his quartet featuring pianist Russ Freeman and an expanded ensemble with Bud Shank on flute and strings arranged by Frank Campo

It is a meditation steeped in the sounds of the times with collaborators including POMO (Anderson

Puttin' On The Ritz

Sonny Rollins - Newk's Time LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) MB-Invisible singing with effortless soul andBlue Note, 1959 Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell's Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. After he began leading his own record dates in the 1950s, Rollins hooked up with Alfred Lion again and recorded four tremendous albums for Blue Note in less than