The November 1961-July 1962 partnership of Rollins with Jim Hall is celebrated with its complete recorded output, consisting of The Bridge plus four tracks from What’s New? The latter include ‘If Ever I Would Leave You’, that was initially unreleased in the UK for copyright reasons, and also its happy replacement that was omitted in the US release, ‘Don’t Stop The Carnival’ – one of the two tracks with percussion and Caribbean-accented vocal group. Unlike the Our Man In Jazz group with Don Cherry and Billy Higgins that followed immediately after this (see Jazzwise 177), the stylistic parameters here make no pretense of being influenced by the then-new ‘free jazz’, but Rollins himself plays some extraordinarily off-the-wall things from time to time. There are also a couple of tender ballads, deliberately going out-of-tempo here and there, while the latin items, including ‘Night Has A Thousand Eyes’, are full of brilliant invention. And, when it comes to ‘Carnival’ and the other calypso ‘Brown Skin Girl’, the nod to Caribbean sax players’ tones – matched by ceaseless upending of the basic simple chord-sequences – is Rollins in excelsis.