Sonny Rollins, The Sound of Sonny (1957)
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One of the earlier Sonny Rollins albums – his first for the Riverside label. Well he’d made several albums by this point, and all rather quickly, over a couple of years, but 1957 is a crucial, pivotal year. And I think of this as one of the earliest because it was one of the earliest I heard; might have been the f…
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