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Saxophone Colossus [Original recording remastered]

Sonny Rollins | Format: Audio CD
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Sonny Rollins is a saxophone colossus. The revered tenor saxophonist first received that appellation via the name of his 1956 Prestige Records album. Even then, at age 26, the title seemed fitting. He had already played and/or recorded with bebop giants Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and J.J. Johnson—and had established himself as the prominent young voice on ... Read more in Amazon's Sonny Rollins Store

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  • Audio CD (7 Aug 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Decca (UMO)
  • ASIN: B000EGDAI4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 130,449 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  1. St. Thomas 6:49£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. You Don't Know What Love Is 6:31£0.89  Buy MP3 
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Listen  4. Moritat10:06£0.89  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Blue 711:17£0.89  Buy MP3 

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CD Rudy Van Gelder Remasters

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Master's Masterpiece 3 Mar 2007
By A. Friswell
Format:Audio CD
Quite simply the best recording Rollins ever made, and that's saying a lot. I heard this as one of my forays into modern jazz back in the 60s and am as delighted and amazed now as then with his inventiveness and his ability to swing like blazes. St Thomas and Strode Road were available on EP in those days, and it's a pleasure to have the other pieces added.

Rollins is the only sax player who can make his instrument moo like a cow - and still sound good.

Flanagan solos and comps very professionally, and even my bete noire, Max Roach, plays with restraint and rhythm.

Buy this with every confidence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars �Colossus� is modest praise 2 Jun 2001
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
Rollins recorded extensively in 1956 and committed hours of fantastic music to vinyl for Prestige. His apogee was Colossus. Never mind the lack of irony in the album's title: this was the state of the tenor in 1956. The opening "St. Thomas" is a calypso, performed by Rollins in homage to the music of the Virgin Islands, from which his family came. An opening like that would perhaps lead one to expect a playful record. But what is to come is no mere light-hearted experiment in festivity. Rollins explores territories in which improvisation and composition become indistinguishable.

A now famous analysis by Gunther Schuller of "Blue 7" described Rollins' development of the solo as "thematic": the construction of the solo was derived from elaborate phrasing, building towards greater complexity until final resolution, like a formal composition. Weil and Brecht's "Moritat" (a.k.a. "Mack the Knife") gets an astonishing reading, but the peak of the album's intensity might be the dialogue between Rollins and Max Roach on "Strode Rode". The symbiosis is so complete that one is tempted to regard the relationship as structural. Yet for all these academic observations, few great records in jazz have ever sounded so effortless and uncontrived. That is the triumph of this album. Play it again and again, you'll never get enough.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Colossal 16 Sep 2003
By "jonnie_h_jazz"
Format:Audio CD
Just to add to the other reviewers' comments, 'You Don't Know What Love Is' is one of the best performances I have ever heard by any artist, any genre. Absolutely heartbreaking.

You ought to be ashamed of yourself if you don't own this CD!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Saxophone Colossus
swift delivery perfect condition and well and truly appreciated thank you so much quite brilliant yeh! played so many times now so enjoyable.
Published 1 month ago by judith
5.0 out of 5 stars Great music. The golden era of jazz and Rollins.
This LP is a must for whom likes jazz and wants a respectful and basic discogrphy of jazz masters. Rollins is at his culmination of virtuosity and the tracks real classics. Read more
Published 2 months ago by cira
5.0 out of 5 stars Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
Not a lot you can say about this really. Rollins was (is?) one of the three or four greatest tenormen in the history of the music, and this is generally considered to be his... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Bob Murray
5.0 out of 5 stars "Must have" Rollins
For some time now I have been up-dating the best of the vinyl LPs that I bought in the 1960s with CDs. Read more
Published on 10 Aug 2010 by D. Baron
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best modern jazz albums ever!
If you only ever own ONE album by Sonny Rollins, this has to be it. Having said that, why have you only one album by the great man???.... More like 10 stars!
Published on 23 Jan 2008 by Mr. Paul Arthur Cambridge
5.0 out of 5 stars Rollins the master
This is one of the best ever Jazz albums, recorded by one of the top five tenor players in Jazz history. Read more
Published on 29 Sep 2006 by S J Buck
5.0 out of 5 stars Amust-have jazz album
Sonny Rollins may not have quite gained the lasting veneration of his contemporaries Miles Davis and John Coltrane, but, trust me, this is one of the finest jazz albums of all... Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2004 by jdian
5.0 out of 5 stars A must-have jazz album
Sonny Rollins may not have quite gained the lasting veneration of his contemporaries Miles Davis and John Coltrane, but, trust me, this is one of the finest jazz albums of all... Read more
Published on 15 Nov 2004 by jdian
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