Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass

Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass
Studio album by
Released1958
RecordedJuly 10 & 11, 1958
StudioBeltone Studios and Metropolitan Studios, NYC
GenreJazz
Length34:24
LabelMetroJazz
E 1002
ProducerLeonard Feather
Sonny Rollins chronology
Freedom Suite
(1958)
Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass
(1958)
Sonny Rollins at Music Inn
(1958)
Brass/Trio Cover

Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the MetroJazz label, later reissued on Verve Records as Sonny Rollins/Brass - Sonny Rollins/Trio.[1][2][3]

One side of the original LP featured performances by Rollins with a big band including Nat Adderley, Reunald Jones, Ernie Royal, Clark Terry, Billy Byers, Jimmy Cleveland, Frank Rehak, Don Butterfield, Dick Katz, René Thomas and Roy Haynes, which was under the musical direction of Ernie Wilkins, and the other side had three tracks by Rollins' trio with Henry Grimes and Specs Wright and an unaccompanied solo performance.

  1. ^ Sonny Rollins discography, accessed October 2, 2009.
  2. ^ Both Sides Now: MetroJazz Album Discography, accessed February 28, 2018
  3. ^ Jazzlists: MetroJazz discography, accessed February 28, 2018