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Saxophone Colossus is one of Sonny Rollins' most acclaimed albums. Recorded and released in 1956, it is widely considered the masterpiece of his mid-1950s series of recordings for Prestige. There are five tracks on the album, three of which are credited to Rollins. "St. Thomas" is a calypso-inspired piece named after Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands. The tune is traditional and had already been recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title "Fire Down There". (In the booklet provided with the boxed set, The Complete Prestige Recordings, Rollins makes it clear that it was the record company that
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Saxophone Colossus is the sixth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins's best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record. It was recorded monophonically on June 22, 1956, with producer Bob Weinstock and engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the latter's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. Rollins led a quartet on the album that included pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Max Roach. Rollins was a member of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet at the time of the recording, and the recording took place four days before his bandmates Brown and Richie Powell died in a car accident on the way to a band engagement in Chicago. Roach appeared on several more of Rollins' solo albums, up to the 1958 Freedom Suite album.
| 1 | St. Thomas | ♡ | 6:44 | Sonny Rollins |
| 2 | You Don’t Know What Love Is | ♡ | 6:26 | Gene de Paul / Don Raye |
| 3 | Strode Rode | ♡ | 5:12 | Sonny Rollins |
| 4 | Moritat | ♡ | 9:58 | Kurt Weill / Elisabeth Hauptmann / Bertolt Brecht |
| 5 | Blue 7 | ♡ | 11:14 | Sonny Rollins |
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R:\__Jazz\_S\Sonny Rollins\1957. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (Prestige, Concord Records, Universal 2014) [SACD][DSD64] - Explorer: Open folder
- AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/album/MW0000188597
Credits
Bass — Doug Watkins Cover — Tom Hannan Drums — Max Roach Piano — Tommy Flanagan Recorded By — Rudy Van Gelder Supervised By — Bob Weinstock Tenor Saxophone — Sonny Rollins
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