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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. [ 4 ] 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 .
The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos calls the album "a recording that should stand proudly alongside Saxophone Colossus as some of the best work of Sonny Rollins in his early years, it's also a testament to the validity, vibrancy, and depth of modern jazz in the post-World War era. It belongs on everybody's shelf."
Download QR code; Print/export ... In the opinion of many of the saxophone player's fans it is the equal of the epochal Saxophone Colossus recordings." [3]
"St. Thomas" became popular when it was released on Rollins's 1956 album Saxophone Colossus, though it had been recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title "Fire Down There", on his Get Happy album. On the digital encyclopedia program, Encarta, a clip of "St. Thomas" could be played as an example of Jazz music in the 'Jazz' entry [3]
The Boston Globe wrote: "The calypso-jazz peregrinations of Sonny Rollins and his stalking- horse tenor saxophone are heard again in his current LP, No Problem (Milestone) with special cheers reserved for the title song and his manic mischief on the Dolly Parton hit, 'Here You Come Again'." [4]
Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone (tracks 1,5,6), soprano saxophone (tracks 2,3,4) George Duke – piano, electric piano; Tony Williams – drums; Paul Jackson – electric bass (tracks 2–6) Charles Icarus Johnson – guitar (tracks 1–4,6) Byron Miller – electric bass (track 1) Bill Summers – congas (track 1)
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[2] Music critic Robert Christgau praised the album, writing: "This is as rich an r&b saxophone record as I know, combining repetition and invention, melodies recalled and melodies unimaginable, in proportions that define the difference between selling out and reaching out.... If you really believe you don't like 'jazz,' this is as good a place ...