Activating the hyperlinks allows you to listen to recordings of most of the compositions. Please consult the discography for details pertaining to the recordings sampled here. Several of the “compositions” are really just improvisations on standard harmonic sequences, as noted.
- Abdullah (a.k.a. When the Groove Is Low)
- Air Tight*
- And How*
- B’s A Plenty
- Barfly (a.k.a. Bar Fly, This Sweet Sorrow****)
- Beat, The*
- Bellarosa (Bella Rose, Bella Rosa)**
- Bertha My Dear (a.k.a. Kiss For My Love, A)
- Berthe, La
- Blue Mambo*
- Blue Mo [This is basically improvisations on a slow 12-bar blues in F.]
- Blues For Sara*
- Blues Left and Right
- Boa
- Carving the Rock**
- Chips
- Clash*
- Come Down*
- Cool Mambo*
- Countdown, The
- Crazy (a.k.a. Race For Space)
- Dear Roe (Dear Rose)*
- De-Dah (a.k.a. Dee-Dah, Kevin)
- Don’t Know*
- Eejah
- Elmo’s Blues
- Elmo’s Fire (a.k.a. Homecoming) [These performances are improvisations on the chord structure of the standard “After You’ve Gone” taken at a fast tempo.]
- Eyes So Beautiful As Yours
- Fixin’*
- Fosterity
- Freffie
- Gladysee Bounce*
- Grammy
- Handover Blues*
- Happy Hour (a.k.a. Delving – no recording under this title found)
- Hot Sauce
- Huh [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in B-flat.]
- I Feel It Coming*
- Jah Kief (Jam Kief)*
- Just a Little Dreamer***
- Later For You
- Low Tide (a.k.a. Into the Orbit, Bird’s View)
- Lucky Strike [This performance is essentially improvisations on the chord structure of the standard “Strike Up the Band.”]
- Maybe So
- McBrowne’s Galaxy (McBrown’s Galaxy)
- Midas*
- Minor Bertha
- Mirror Mind Rose
- Mo Is On
- Moe Jr.
- Moe’s Bluff (Mo’s Bluff)
- Moking*
- Monique
- Moonbeams
- Most Beautiful
- Nieta
- On It
- One Down
- One For Sid*
- One Mo Blues [This is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in F.]
- One Second, Please
- Origin (a.k.a. Roll On, Stealthy Fingers – no recording under this title found)
- Pam
- Pressing On*
- Punch That [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in B-flat.]
- Quit It [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in B-flat.]
- Reserved*
- Ridin’*
- Senior*
- Sims A Plenty
- So Nice (a.k.a. Trippin’)
- Something For Kenny (a.k.a. If I Could I Would)
- Split It*
- St. Elmo’s Fire [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in B-flat.]
- Stars Over Marakesh (Stars Over Marrakech)
- Stellations [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in F.]
- Stitt’s It*
- Tabby*
- Take Twelve (a.k.a. One For Joe)
- Tea Cup*
- Tell Tales*
- Thou Wouldn’t*
- Three Silver Quarters
- Toothsome Threesome [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in B-flat.]
- Tranquility
- Tresses*
- Trial By Blues*
- Two For Ted*
- Underneath [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in F.
- Vaun Ex (a.k.a. Ecstacy)
- Vi-Ann
- Vinice*
- Wail, Frank, Wail
- Weeja (Weejah) [This is essentially improvisations on the chord structure of the bebop standard “Confirmation.”]
- Yaho [This performance is essentially improvisations on the 12-bar blues in F.]
- Zarou (Zarov)
*Not recorded
**Sonny Rollins co-composer
***Ruth Rachel Mackin co-composer; not recorded
****Lyric by Roberta Gambarini
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