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Brass / Trio

Sonny Rollins

Recorded	Jul 10-11, 1958
Label	Verve Records
Released	1958
Personnel	14 credited players
Discogs	master 308206

The record

Verve splits the format down the middle: a stacked brass choir on one side, then just bass, drums, and guitar behind him on the other. Cut over two July days in 1958, it shows Rollins testing how much scaffolding his tenor actually needs.

Session personnel

Henry Grimes — bass
Nat Adderley — cornet
Roy Haynes — drums
Specs Wright — drums
René Thomas — guitar
Dick Katz — piano
Sonny Rollins — tenor saxophone
Billy Byers — trombone
Frank Rehak — trombone
Jimmy Cleveland — trombone
Clark Terry — trumpet
Ernie Royal — trumpet
Reunald Jones — trumpet
Don Butterfield — tuba

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 22 pressings on file.

1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono earliest on file
1962	Verve Records — MONO
1962	Verve Records · V6-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Trumpeter Labels
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1962	Verve Records · V6-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Terre Haute Pressing
1962	Verve Records · V6-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Bridgeport Pressing
1962	Verve Records · V6-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Reissue, Stereo
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, Terre Haute Pressing
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1962	Verve Records · V-8430 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono, misprint
1976	Verve Records · MV 2555 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1984	Verve Records · 815 056-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo