Freedom Suite

Sonny Rollins · 1958

Context

"Freedom Suite" takes up the entire first side of the Sonny Rollins album released on Riverside in June 1958, a piano-less trio with Oscar Pettiford and Max Roach. The four-movement piece lasts nearly twenty minutes. Producer Orrin Keepnews presents it as a statement about musical, physical, and moral freedom, without tying it to a specific event; Rollins linked it to his interest in civil rights.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Hard bop. Among the origins and influences of Hard bop: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Way Out West (1957)
• St. Thomas (Stockholm, 1959) (1959)
• Saxophone Colossus (St. Thomas) (1956)
• Tenor Madness (1956)
• The Bridge (1962)

Sources

• EN: Freedom Suite (Sonny Rollins album)
• thejazztome.info
• wgte.org

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