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THE MAX ROACH/SONNY ROLLINS QUINTET
RAREST RECORDING!

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In 1973 I purchased a private acetate disc from a legendary New York recording archivist that contained 2 never issued tracks by the Max Roach Quintet recorded December 12, 1956. It was a live broadcast from the Café Bohemia, and Max's group was the same as the one he co-led with Clifford Brown, except Kenny Dorham had replaced the deceased Brownie,...so there's Sonny Rollins on tenor, Ray Bryant on piano, George Morrow on bass, and Kenny Dorham on trumpet

Fifty four years later, this material still has NEVER surfaced on lp, cd or any other media format, though some discographies list is as "private tape", so apparently it's known of - though extremely rare.  In the 1990’s I transferred the original acetate onto a digital format and am offering a few copies of this material to dedicated jazz fans and collectors.  

The group plays two selections - a 10 minute rendition of "I Feel  a Song Coming On" with the same musical arrangement as the Sonny/Max/Clifford classic rendition from the Prestige lp "Sonny Rollins Plus 4". They also do a short version of Daahoud, where announcer Guy Wallace breaks in to talk about the band. Of course the music is sensational and the fidelity is very good for a live recorded broadcast from the 1950's (there are two "one second dropouts" in the very beginning of one song)

For anyone interested in obtaining a CD of these two rare tracks, I made a CD of this available for purchase and a Paypal link is provided below. A music sample containing very short excerpted solos is also located below. The price of the CD is $25 in the US including shipping, and $30 anywhere else in the world including shipping. The disc will arrive without graphics and is being offered solely as an accomodation to fans of rare 1950's jazz. The disc will be shipped within one week of payment. Enjoy.

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