Release Date 12/7/24
Complete album + 1 bonus track- limited edition 180g red coloured virgin
vinyl & new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's writer Brian
Morton.
When Sonny Rollins arrived in Los Angeles in early 1957, he discovered that Ray
Brown was also in town with Oscar Peterson's trio and that Shelly Manne was on
hand leading a band of his own. The result of this chance discovery was a
recording session and the album Way Out West, which marked Rollins' very frst
date in a trio setting and his frst recording without the accompaniment of a piano
or guitar. Rollins was at the height of his career at this time and named the "New
Star" tenor saxophonist in the 1957 Down Beat magazine critics' poll.