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Sonny Rollins Passes Away at 95
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
In celebration of the 50th anniversaries of their recording, Columbia/Legacy has plans to release special Legacy Editions of Dave Brubeck’s Time Out, Miles Davis’ Sketches Of Spain and Charles Mingus’ Mingus Ah Um. All three are slated for a May 26 release.
The Time Out Legacy Edition will feature two CDs and a DVD. The DVD features a new 30-minute documentary on the making of Time Out, including footage of Brubeck illustrating selections from Time Out at the piano. The audio portion of this package features over 90 minutes of music, including an entire second disc of previously unreleased live recordings from the Newport Jazz Festival from 1961-‘64.
Sketches Of Spain was released in 1960, but recorded in ‘59. The two-CD Legacy Edition of this collaboration between Gil Evans and Davis features more than two hours of music: the original album along with rehearsal and alternate takes previously heard only on the 1996 set Miles Davis & Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, plus the lone ever live performance by Davis with Evans, “Concierto De Aranjuez” performed at Carnegie Hall on May 19, 1961.
The two-CD Mingus Ah Um features more than two-and-a-half hours of music over, including Mingus Ah Um and its sequel, Mingus Dynasty, in their entirety, plus four bonus tracks from the sessions and three alternate takes.
Onstage, Rollins would move about restlessly, thrusting his tenor sax in the air as he blew.
May 26, 2026 11:08 AM
Sonny Rollins, the iconic saxophonist, composer and improviser whose career stretched from the origins of bebop to 21st…
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