Unlike Road Shows Vol.1, which spanned nearly three decades of Sonny live, all but 16 and-a-half minutes of the new album stems from the New York concert held one day after his 80th birthday last year. As well as the cornucopia of Rollins improvisation, several tracks feature guest appearances, at least two of them unplanned. Haynes, teamed again with McBride, apparently showed up uninvited as did Ornette, who joins in over a third of the way through a 20-minute ‘Sonnymoon For Two’ and plays in alto C-major or a fourth away from Rollins (and McBride). No new originals here, but it’s interesting to have revisions of ‘Sonnymoon’ and ‘I Can’t Get Started’, which were both on the 1957 Night At The Village Vanguard. Hargrove works with the regular group including Malone, but more surprising is the fact that Rollins’s contemporary Hall is given three-and-a-half minutes with Cranshaw and Watkins, uninterrupted by anything from Sonny – except his announcement, and there are quite a few of those. The remaining material consists of a long ‘They Say It’s Wonderful’ and a short ‘St. Thomas’, from concerts in Japan the following month (the latter with an announcement in Japanese, and played in a new key!) Possibly less satisfying as an album than Vol.1, but nevertheless an excellent source of new Rollins.