Release Date: 01 September 2018
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436569192672
Genres: Jazz
Description
When Sonny Rollins entered the studio to record Saxophone Colossus (Prestige PRLP-7079), one of his more acclaimed albums as a leader, on June 22, 1956, he 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 presents Rollins leading an all-star quartet that includes pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and, as said before, drummer Max Roach. The album enjoyed great critical success from the start and helped establish Rollins as a prominent jazz artist. The saxophonist's complete LP Worktime (Prestige PRLP 7020) has been added as a bonus.
Tracklisting
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Jackie Mclean
John Coltrane & Kenny Burrell
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin
Art Blakey
Paul Chambers Quintet
Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Mingus, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins
