Pent Up House is a jazz tune written by Sonny Rollins and first released in 1956 on the Prestige album Sonny Rollins Plus 4. The album was recorded on March 22, 1956 at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey and features Sonny Rollins on tenor sax, Clifford Brown on trumpet, Max Roach on drums, Richie Powell on piano, and George Morrow on bass. Rollins wrote Pent Up House while a sideman in the Clifford Brown – Max Roach Quintet, and the Plus 4 project gave him a chance to present his own composition with the same group, creating a sound distinct from the Quintet. The record is part of a historically significant session, as it was the last recording with Clifford Brown and Richie Powell before their deaths three months later. Pent Up House is a compact, insistent piece built on a small number of notes, and it runs about eight and a half minutes on the album.
