- jazz, hard bop
- 40 min
- 5 tracks
- Prestige
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.
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Grave, character-led, spare and earnest.
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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Tracks
- A1St. Thomas6:48
- A2You Don't Know What Love Is6:29
- A3Strode Rode5:15
- B1Moritat10:03
- B2Blue 711:18
5 tracks, 40 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Sonny Rollins
- Label
- Prestige
- Released
- April 27, 1957
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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