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Sonny Rollins / Don Cherry’s “Complete Live At The Village Gate 1962” Review

 

In July of 1962, saxophonist Sonny Rollins was joined by cornetist Don Cherry, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Billy Higgins for a four night stand at New York City’s Village Gate. But while this quartet performed twenty songs during this engagement, only three were ever released (on Sonny’s album Our Man In Jazz), and even then, one of them was heavily edited. But now the complete four night stint has been released as a six-CD boxed set titled Complete Live At The Village Gate 1962. Though while the music is great, the way its presented in this collection might irritate some picky purists.