RCA Camden · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Now's The Time!

Recorded	Jan 20 & Apr 14, 1964
Label	RCA Camden
Released	1964
Personnel	6 credited players
Discogs	master 407043

The record

Budget-label billing hides real stakes here -- a young Hancock trading duties with a rotating bass chair of Cranshaw and Carter, the band cutting Bird's blues theme with loose, unhurried nerve. Overlooked, but true mid-'60s Rollins.

Session personnel

Bob Cranshaw — bass
Ron Carter — bass
Thad Jones — cornet
Roy McCurdy — drums
Herbie Hancock — piano
Sonny Rollins — saxophone [tenor]

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 40 pressings on file.

1964	RCA Victor · LPM-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1964	RCA Victor · LSP-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Rockaway Pressing; Dynagroove
1964	RCA Victor · RD-7670 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1964	Victor · SHP-5379 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1964	RCA Victor · LPM-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
1964	RCA Victor · LPM 2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · laminated sleeve
1964	Victor · SHP-5379 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Test Pressing, White Label, Mono · gatefold
1964	RCA Victor · LSP-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Dynagroove
1964	RCA Victor · LSP-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Dynagroove
1969	RCA Victor · P8S 1059 — 8-Track Cartridge, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1972	RCA Victor · LSP-2927 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1976	RCA · RGP-1175 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1979	RCA Camden — STEREO
1979	RCA Camden · QJ-25241 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo