Freddie Redd: Shades of Redd 1LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-22 Sonny Rollins first appeared on

Sonny Rollins first appeared on a Blue Note recording session in 1949 as part of Bud Powell’s Modernists during a period when the saxophonist was coming up on the scene and cutting his teeth alongside bebop innovators including Thelonious Monk

Paul Cornish on piano

bassist Noriko Ueda

South African pianist

and Kenny Wollesen on drums for a set of new Lage originals that evoke classic guitar/organ soul jazz through the prism of Lage’s signature sound

Freddie Redd: Shades of Redd 1LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) ETJS-22 Sonny Rollins first appeared onBlue Note, 1960 The underrated hard bop pianist and composer Freddie Redd first gained a degree of prominence as the composer of the remarkable score for the acclaimed stage play The Connection, in which he also appeared as an actor playing the role of a jazz pianist. Redds 1960 Blue Note debut was a recording of The Music from The Connection and he would continue to display his compositional prowess on his next date, Shades of Redd, recorded later