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![Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus [PRESTIGE / CRAFT]](https://cdn.shoplightspeed.com/shops/621399/files/33150737/1652x1652x2/new-vinyl-sonny-rollins-saxophone-colossus-prestig.jpg)
Sonny Rollins' 1956 masterpiece Saxophone Colossus with Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins and Max Roach: "St. Thomas," "Blue 7" and "Moritat."
Saxophone Colossus is Sonny Rollins' best-known album and one of the cornerstones of jazz, chosen for the Library of Congress' National Recording Registry. "St. Thomas" and "Blue 7" are essential listening.
Sonny Rollins went into Rudy Van Gelder's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey on June 22, 1956 with Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max Roach on drums, and in a single session made the album that would define him. The title wasn't an exaggeration: this is a big, joyful, endlessly inventive tenor sax at the height of its powers.
"St. Thomas," based on a Caribbean folk song Rollins heard as a child, opens with Roach's famous drum pattern and bounces like nothing else in jazz. "Moritat" (better known as "Mack the Knife") swings easy, "You Don't Know What Love Is" is a gorgeous ballad, and "Blue 7" is a long, thematic blues improvisation that critics have studied for decades. A first-shelf jazz record if ever there was one.
Also at Kops: more Sonny Rollins on vinyl · browse Classic Jazz
Side A
1. St. Thomas
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Strode Rode
Side B
1. Moritat
2. Blue 7
On Prestige / Craft, a reissue of the 1956 album.
Info from Wikipedia.
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