Saxophone Colossus

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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.[1] 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. Rollins led a quartet on the album that included pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Max Roach. Rollins was a member of the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet at the time of the recording, and the recording took place four days before his bandmates Brown and Richie Powell died in a car accident on the way to a band engagement in Chicago. (Rollins was not travelling in the car carrying Brown and Powell.) Roach appeared on several more of Rollins' solo albums, up to the 1958 Freedom Suite album.

Saxophone Colossus was released by Prestige Records to critical success and helped establish Rollins as a prominent jazz artist.[2]

In 2016, Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[3]

Release and legacy

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarStarStar[4]
DiscStarStarStarStarStar[5]
DownBeatStarStarStarStarStar[6]
Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStarStarStar[7]
JazzwiseStarStarStarStarStar[8]
MusicHound Jazz5/5[9]
The Penguin Guide to JazzStarStarStarStar 👑[10]
Record MirrorStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[11]
The Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[12]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStarStar[13]

Independent sources have differed in their reporting of the album's release date. According to The Mojo Collection, it was released in the autumn of 1956,[2] while an August 1957 issue of Billboard magazine listed the album among records released in the period between March 16 and July of that same year.[14] 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 inventive of modern jazzmen", and "everytrack is packed with surprises, tho Rollins develops each solo with great architectural logic".[15] Ralph J. Gleason reviewed the album later in June for DownBeat, writing:

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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.[6]

Scott Yanow, in a retrospective review for AllMusic, called Saxophone Colossus "arguably his finest all-around set",[4] 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".[16] In 2000, it was voted number 405 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums.[17] The Penguin Guide to Jazz included the album in its suggested "core collection" of essential recordings, and in addition to its maximum rating of four stars awarded it a "crown", indicating an album for which the authors felt particular admiration or affection.[10]

Track listing

Side one

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Side two

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Personnel

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Spellman, A. B.; Murray Horwitz (August 1, 2001). "Review | Sonny Rollins: 'Saxophone Colossus'". Basic Jazz Record Library | NPR.org.
  2. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anon. (2007). "Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus". The Mojo Collection (4th ed.). Canongate Books. p. 13. ISBN 978-1847676436. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Recording Registry Picks Are "Over the Rainbow"". Library of Congress. March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
  4. ^ a b Yanow, Scott. AllMusic Review. Retrieved 7 October 2009
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hall, Tony (June 28, 1958). "Reviews". Disc. No. 21. p. 15.
  6. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gleason, Ralph J. (June 27, 1957). "Saxophone Colossus". Down Beat. Chicago. Archived from the original on August 7, 2014. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Larkin, Colin (2007). Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus ★★★★★". Jazzwise. July 22, 2019. Retrieved July 30, 2020.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prince, David (1998). "Sonny Rollins". In Holtje, Steve; Lee, Nancy Ann (eds.). MusicHound Jazz: The Essential Music Guide. New York and Madrid: Schirmer Trade Books. p. 970. ISBN 1578590310.
  10. ^ a b Cook, Richard, and Brian Morton (2008), The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (ninth ed.) Penguin, p. 1233.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (February 19, 1966). "Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 258. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moon, Tom (2004). "Sonny Rollins". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 699. ISBN 0743201698. Retrieved November 15, 2015.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 171. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
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  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wilson, Peter Niklas (2001). "Discography". Sonny Rollins: The Definitive Musical Guide. Berkeley Hills Books. p. 124. ISBN 1-893163-06-7.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Colin Larkin (2000). All Time Top 1000 Albums (3rd ed.). Virgin Books. p. 152. ISBN 0-7535-0493-6.

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