Sonny Rollins: Way Out West | CD review

(Decca)Concord Music has remastered and reissued a set of jazz landmarks from the Original Jazz Classics catalogue – with highlights including Thelonious Monk's short but sensational relationship with John Coltrane, Art Pepper's encounter with Miles Davis's 1957 rhythm section, and Dave Brubeck's pre-Take Five wakeup call, Jazz at Oberlin. But Sonny Rollins's 1957 Way Out West (whose cover features Rollins dressed in a suit, tie, gunbelt and 10-gallon hat against a backdrop of cactuses and cat...

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