1.  Mastered off the original two-track tape recorded with a tube AKG-C12 microphone on a tube Ampex 350 machine. Features Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums. Over his long and distinguished career, Sonny Rollins has made many dozens of albums. Among those recorded during the fifties, Prestige\'s "Movin\' Out" and "Colossus", Blue Note\'s "A Night at the Village Vanguard", Riverside\'s "The Sound of Sonny", and "Way Out West" on Contemporary qualify as all-time Rollins classics.
The session for "Way Out West", Rollins\' first ever in California, was called for 3 a.m. to accommodate everyone\'s busy schedules. Sonny, who could never be accused of overstatement, announced after four hours of recording: »I\'m hot now.«

2.  This is the first LP to be issued featuring the Miles Davis Quintet - a group that was to become one of the most influential small bands of the Fifties. It also introduced John Coltrane to the jazz public, launching him on his significant career. Davis’ singular mastery with a mute, exemplified on "The Musings of Miles", is further emphasized, as is Red Garland’s penchant for picking \'new\' old standards for Miles.

3   Even before Pink Floyd’s thrust their musical message of protest, the mechano-hit The Wall, under the noses of the establishment and the established, the melancholic songs of the group Supertramp had long found their way into the hearts of the young who had been shaken by one crisis after the other.
The LP with its surrealistic, chilling cover and eye-raising title was a success all over the world and even the sternest critics showered it with praise. “Their music just floods the senses; it is as though someone has put on all the good pop records of the 60s and 70s at the same time”, lamented the music magazine SOUNDS helplessly – totally fascinated by their sound.
Crime Of The Century provided plenty of fodder for the hit charts and radio DJs. And even today, the balladesque collage School with its bloodcurdling harmonica introduction, the pearl-like Rhodes piano chords in the rocking Bloody well right, and the childlike, mocking Dreamer are the epitome of the pop cult of the Seventies.
The recording quality of this disc is excellent, and what is more – it has been judged the very best album that the English quintet ever produced.
Celebrate the record’s 25th birthday with a fantastic vinyl re-release fresh from the press.