Though they may not have recorded together until 1953, when Rollins was 23 years old, Sonny was introduced to Monk while a senior in high school, already part of a cadre of young neighborhood jazz neophytes. Monk became a mentor to them, offering home-based instruction on the new possibilities restructuring bop harmonies and rhythms, or as Rollins later put it, “the geometry of musical time and space.” (Art Lange)

Program

1. Teeter Totter 8:35 2. Pedro’s Time 10:06 3. Our Thing 5:38 4. Back Road 6:22 5. Escapade 8:06 6. In ‘N Out 10:25 7. Punjab 9:10 8. Serenity 6:17 9. Short Story 7:12 10. Brown’s Town 6:25