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Format Details: Blue Vinyl
Release Date: 29 January 2013
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436542012898
Release Date: 07 February 2025
Label: 20th Century Masterworks
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436563186059
Description
The complete LP + 2 bonus tracks - limited edition pressing on 180g blue vinyl, includes new specially prepared liner notes by penguin guide to jazz's writer Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious Jazz Magazine.
The Bridge was the first album Sonny Rollins recorded after he returned to the jazz scene in late 1961, following a two-year layoff to practice and reflect during a time of great stylistic upheaval in the music. If the sabbatical added to his instrumental command and his musical understanding, the triumphal return confirmed that this was the same authoritative player of the classic 'Saxophone Colossus', 'Way Out West' and 'Village Vanguard' albums.
'The Bridge' features Rollins in a piano-less quartet, with Jim Hall on guitar, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Ben Riley on drums.
At the risk of being unable to give Rollins a higher numerical rating when he surpasses this album (and I have every confidence that he will) this set still has to be placed in the superlative class." - ***** Ira Gitler, Down Beat
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Ella Fitzgerald
Nina Simone
Elvis Presley
Oscar Peterson
Michel Legrand & Miles Davis
Nina Simone
Miles Davis Quintet
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
