Saxophone Colossus

Down Beat: 5 Stars - Excellent "...Rollins displays humor, gentleness, a delicate feeling for beauty....I find this entire album excellent on all counts and for all persons concerned."

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Format: Vinyl LP

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Vinyl LP Details

Released: November 17, 2017
Originally Released: 2017
Label: DOL/Vinylogy

Entertainment Reviews:

Down Beat

5 Stars - Excellent "...Rollins displays humor, gentleness, a delicate feeling for beauty....I find this entire album excellent on all counts and for all persons concerned."

JazzTimes - 4/96, pp.79-80

"The title is not hyperbole....Important as some of his later work has been, the tenor saxophonist's levels of thematic development, assurance, humor and general creative force in SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS remain unequaled....this is an essential album."

Vibe - 12/99, p.162

Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century

Record Collector (magazine) - p.93

4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] masterwork of tenor saxophone improvisation that kicks off with the classic 'St Thomas'..."

Tracks on Disc 1:

1.Strode Rode
2.Blue 7
3.Moritat

Tracks on Disc 2:

1.Saint Thomas