Rollins's contract with RCA Victor lasted through 1964 and saw him remain one of the most adventurous musicians around. Each album he recorded differed radically from the previous one. The 1962 disc "What's New?" explored Latin rhythms. On the album "Our Man in Jazz," recorded live at The Village Gate, he explored avant-garde playing with a quartet that featured Cranshaw on bass, Billy Higgins on drums and Don Cherry on cornet. He also played with a tenor saxophone hero, Coleman Hawkins, and free jazz pianist Paul Bley on "Sonny Meets Hawk!", and he re-examined jazz standards and Great American Songbook melodies on "Now's the Time" and "The Standard Sonny Rollins" (which featured pianist Herbie Hancock).