The Netherlands Jazz Archive has recently found studio recordings of performances that the American jazz musician and tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins gave in 1967 in the Netherlands. Until now, fans could only listen to an amateur recording of that tour.
The archive will release the find on Friday in collaboration with Resonance Records on CD, under the name Rollins in Holland. These are performances that the now ninety-year-old Rollins gave in a studio of the VARA in Hilversum. Drummer Han Bennink and the late double bassist Ruud Jacobs can also be heard on the 53-year-old recordings.
Amateur recordings from Arnhem recorded in the same year can also be found on the publication. The album is further supplemented with recordings made for a television program in the GoGo Club in Oud-Loosdrecht during the same period.
The Jazz Archive approached Rollins about the find and, according to researcher Frank Jochemsen, who happened to find the recordings when he found a box, he is very happy with it. Rollins, who lives in Woodstock and is no longer active as a musician, would also have had special memories of the trip to the Netherlands himself.
Rollins enjoys great status among jazz fans and has played with Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Lester Young and Art Blakey, among others.
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