Release Date: 20 March 2020
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436569193747
Description
THE FRANCIS WOLFF COLLECTION: LP 180g VINYL IN GATEFOLD SLEEVE
Saxophone Colossus is one of Sonny Rollins' more acclaimed albums as a leader. Recorded on June 22, 1956, by which time the saxophonist had already been a regular member of the celebrated Max Roach-Clifford Brown Quintet for half a year. This fact also explains the
presence of Roach. Four days later, that group would no longer exist, for on June 26 both Clifford Brown and the band's pianist Ritchie Powell were killed in a tragic car accident. Age 26, Rollins was already a well-known jazz figure. He had recorded some albums as a leader but, above all, he had been part of one of the most outstanding combos of the period; the Miles Davis Quintet. Saxophone Colossus enjoyed great critical success from the start and helped establish Rollins as a prominent jazz artist. The album presents Rollins leading an all-star quartet that includes pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and, as previously
noted, drummer Max Roach.
SONNY ROLLINS, tenor sax
TOMMY FLANAGAN, piano
DOUG WATKINS, bass
MAX ROACH, drums
Hackensack, New Jersey, June 22, 1956.
Original sessions recorded by Rudy Van Gelder and
produced by Bob Weinstock.
*BONUS TRACKS:
Same personnel but RAY BRYANT (piano) & GEORGE
MORROW (bass) replace Flanagan & Watkins.
Hackensack, New Jersey, December 2, 1955.
Tracklisting
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Jackie Mclean
John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin
Art Blakey
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
