Sonny Rollins – Sonny Rollins, Volume One (1957)

Blue Note – BLP 1542Rec. Date : December 16, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Sonny RollinsBass : Gene RameyDrums : Max RoachPiano : Wynton KellyTrumpet : Donald Byrd Billboard : 03/30/1957Jazz Special Merit Album Any listener jaded with the sameness of the modern sounds can freshen up with this one. Here’s some of

Hank Mobley – With Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan (1957)

Blue Note – BLP 1540Rec. Date : November 25, 1956 Stream this Album Tenor Sax : Hank MobleyBass : Paul ChambersDrums : Charlie PersipPiano : Horace SilverTrumpet : Donald Byrd, Lee Morgan Billboard 03/30/1957Score of 77 Still another of the Silver-Mobley-Byrd collections, but this time with the lesser-accepted Mobley name on top. However, there are

Paul Chambers Sextet – Whims of Chambers (1957)

Blue Note – BLP 1534Rec. Date : September 21, 1956 Bass : Paul ChambersDrums : Philly Joe JonesGuitar : Kenny BurrellPiano : Horace SilverTenor Sax : John ColtraneTrumpet : Donald Byrd Strictlyheadies : 02/11/2019Stream this Album   Billboard : 01/26/1957Score of 77 This is only the second LP which Chambers has been the “headliner,” but his work on bass on so many albums in