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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. St. Thomas | |||
| 2. you dont know what love is | |||
| 3. Strode rode | |||
| 4. Moritat | |||
| 5. Blue Seven | |||
| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Tune up | |||
| 2. Asiatic rules | |||
| 3. the surrey with the fringe on top | |||
| 4. Wonderful! Wonderful! | |||
| 5. Namely you | |||
| 6. Blues for philly joe | |||
| 7. Tenor madness | |||
| 8. When your lover has gone | |||
| 9. Paul's pal | |||
| 10. My reverie | |||
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Product Description
CD Description
Incorporating three classic Sonny Rollins albums ('Saxophone Colossus', 'Newk's Time' and 'Tenor Madness'), this collection includes some of the legendary saxophonist's finest moments. All tracks have been digitally remastered for optimum listening and highlights include 'You Don't Know What Love Is', 'Blue Seven', 'The Surrey With The Fringe On Top' and 'Tenor Madness'.
Product Description
2CD set w/3 classic original 1950s albums: Saxophone Colossus, Newk's Time & Tenor Madness.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This 2 CD set nicely and distinctively packaged has a total running time of approx 110 minutes. Of major interest to collectors of jazz sax is the Prestige Records album dating from 1956 entitled "Saxophone Colossus" on CD1 which with its 5 tracks and quartet setting of Sonny Rollis on tenor sax; Tommy Flanagan on piano; Doug Watkins on bass & Max Roach on drums established Sonny Rollins as a headline performer and recording artist. CD2 comprises the Blue Note album "Newk's Time" (1957) and Prestige Records "Tenor Madness" which predates the CD1 album by about a month and which is famous for showcasing John Coltrane & Sonny Rollins. The albums are a mix of Sonny Rollins own compositions (6) and interpretations of standards of the era. Listen out for his version of the Johnny Mathis hit "Wonderful, Wonderful" and the earlier "My Reverie". The sound quality is excellent. Informative liner notes by Michael Heatley. This is yet another great addition to the Not Now jazz catalogue that is building into something very big in the budget CD marketplace.
23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Great early sessions by Sonny Rollins. If you're even looking at this release, you already know that.
My review, and the 2 star rating, is based on the fact that this is another gray area copyright-expiration release. And my severe annoyance at the claim that this has been "digitally remastered." Oh really? Because the company that issued this doesn't have access to the master tapes. All they can do is take CDs that are already issued, legitimately, by his original record company, and use a graphic equalizer to mess around them to make them worse. You can do the same thing using treble/bass/midrange boost on your player.
This box is cheap, but so it should be, since the company issuing it doesn't have to pay royalties to the record company or to Sonny Rollins, who is still alive and assuredly could use the royalties.
All these gray market releases suck what's left out of the record biz and make it less likely that we'll ever see legitimate returns to the actual master tapes, and, in the case of a guy like Rollins, less likely that he'll even see returns for his own work.
Buy the box if you wish, but truthfully, the only difference between this and a download from the Internet is that here you get to pay a middleman who has nothing to do with the music.
My review, and the 2 star rating, is based on the fact that this is another gray area copyright-expiration release. And my severe annoyance at the claim that this has been "digitally remastered." Oh really? Because the company that issued this doesn't have access to the master tapes. All they can do is take CDs that are already issued, legitimately, by his original record company, and use a graphic equalizer to mess around them to make them worse. You can do the same thing using treble/bass/midrange boost on your player.
This box is cheap, but so it should be, since the company issuing it doesn't have to pay royalties to the record company or to Sonny Rollins, who is still alive and assuredly could use the royalties.
All these gray market releases suck what's left out of the record biz and make it less likely that we'll ever see legitimate returns to the actual master tapes, and, in the case of a guy like Rollins, less likely that he'll even see returns for his own work.
Buy the box if you wish, but truthfully, the only difference between this and a download from the Internet is that here you get to pay a middleman who has nothing to do with the music.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Second to Kind Of Blue (yes, I'm predictable), this is my favourite jazz recording ever. Every track is brilliant. This is a nice edition too, with the addition of Newk's Time and Tenor Madness albums. Excellent sound quality, great remastering.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Beautiful record
This is a must for any collection, a timeless and wonderful recording by a true master musician of Jazz or any other musical genre.
Published 1 month ago by D. S. Smith
Nice - Ive got to join a jazz club!!
I saw a Sonny Rollins documentary on the Beeb a while ago and bought this off the bck of that. This is a really good album and great value for money with 3 albums on 2 discs all... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fan1
Buy it!
Brilliant. Absolute knockout music. Great at any time of day and night. It reaches the parts Heineken can't reach. Colossus hits the nail on the head.
Published 1 month ago by kiffoker
Before the bridge
When I was in my teens, in the late 1960s, I used to see a bald, paunchy, behatted figure somewhere in his thirties, twisted over a sax (usually of the soprano variety) on Waterloo... Read more
Published 3 months ago by GlynLuke
The Music is Great!, However...
I wish Amazon employees could spell, even when the long difficult words are there in front of them & just have to be copied.
Published 9 months ago by Roger Cawkwell
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