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Released1956/1957RecordedJune 22, 1956StudioinLength39: 58,chronology(1956)Saxophone Colossus(1956)(1956)Saxophone Colossus is a by American saxophonist. It was recorded on June 22, 1956, with producers and at in. Rollins led a quartet on the album that included pianist, bassist, and drummer. Saxophone Colossus was released by to critical success and helped establish Rollins as a prominent jazz artist.In 2017, Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation in the by the as being 'culturally, historically, or artistically significant.' This section does not any. Unsourced material may be challenged and.Find sources: – ( July 2015) There are five tracks on the album, three of which are credited to Rollins.

' is a calypso-inspired piece named after in the. The tune is traditional and had already been recorded by in 1955 under the title 'Fire Down There'.

(In the booklet provided with the boxed set, The Complete Prestige Recordings, Rollins makes it clear that it was the record company that insisted on his taking credit.) In any case, the piece has since become a jazz standard, and this is its most famous recorded version. The final track, 'Blue 7,' is a blues piece, over eleven minutes long. Its main, rather disjunct melody was spontaneously composed. The performance is among Rollins' most acclaimed, and is the subject of an article by entitled 'Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation'. Schuller praises Rollins on 'Blue 7' for the use of motivic development exploring and developing melodic themes throughout his three solos, so that the piece is unified, rather than being composed of unrelated ideas. The original 22 June 1956 session was recorded.

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A CD version, mastered by, was released in May 1995 by DCC Compact Classics; no additional performances were included. Another remastered version, this time by Van Gelder, was released on 21 March 2006. The album's title was devised by Prestige Records' in-house publicity director Robert 'Bob' Altshuler.Release and reception Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRating5/5have differed in their reporting of the album's release date. According to, it was released in the autumn of 1956, and also lists that year as the one of its release, while an August 1957 issue of magazine listed the album among records released in the period between March 16 and July of that same year. Reviewing in April 1957, Billboard said 'Rollins' latest effort should really start musicians buzzing', as 'the tenorman is one of the most vigorous, dynamic and inventine of modern jazzmen', and 'everytrack is packed with surprises, tho Rollins develops each solo with great architectural logic'.

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Reviewed the album later in June for, writing:“Almost as if in answer to the charge that there is a lack of grace and beauty in the work of the New York hard-swingers comes this album in which Rollins displays humor, gentleness, a delicate feeling for beauty in line, and a puckish sense of humor. And all done with the uncompromising swinging that has characterized them all along.”In a retrospective review for, called Saxophone Colossus 'arguably his finest all-around set', while German musicologist Peter Niklas Wilson deemed it 'another milestone of the Rollins discography, a recording repeatedly cited as Rollins' chef d'oeuvre, and one of the classic jazz albums of all time'.In 2000 it was voted number 405 in 's. Track listing Side one No.TitleWriter(s)Length1.' Strode Rode'Sonny Rollins5:17Side two No.TitleWriter(s)Length1.'

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PrestigeRecorded 1949 - 1969Release date: March 24th 2009Availability: CD, MP3 DownloadWhen Bob Weinstock launched the indy jazz label New Jazz in 1948 from his 48th Street New York store 'The Record Corner' few would have guessed that this was the first step in the creation of what was to become Prestige Records. In the next thirty years (the last Prestige album appeared in 1978) the label would record nearly all of the jazz greats and take its place alongside Blue Note as a major player in the popularization of the best of the music that had grown out of the experiments of the boppers at Minton's Playhouse and become a world phenomenon.This 2-CD album, released to mark sixty years of Presitge records, presents a very well chosen selection of from the label's vaults.

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