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Saxophone Colossus
100 mejores discos de jazz
Artist: Sonny Rollins
Release Date: 1956
Label: Fantasy / Prestige
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Bebop
Pistas:
1 - St. Thomas -- 6:48
2 - You Don't Know What Love Is -- 6:29
3 - Strode Rode -- 5:15
4 - Moritat -- 10:06
5 - Blue 7 -- 11:17 |
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Saxophone Colossus - 100 ***** Imprescindible para los admiradores de Rollins. Su más fina obra donde se aprecia todo lo mejor de su "colosal" estilo.
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SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS is the essence of Sonny Rollins, the greatest living tenor saxophonist in jazz. Virile and virtuosic, Rollins practically strides through these classic performances, including his jubilant calypso theme song, "St. Thomas," the steaming bop romp "Strode Rode," a strutting "Moritiat" (better known as "Mack the Knife"), the sculptural "Blue Seven," and the wrenching, deep blue ballad "You Don't Know What Love Is." When he cut the album in 1956 at the tender age of 26, Rollins had already played with such masters as Bud Powell, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Clifford Brown; COLOSSUS was a stunning announcement to the world that the wunderkind was good and ready to step out on his own. Rollins couldn't have had a better crew onboard either: drummer, and former boss, Max Roach, pianist Tommy Flanangan, and bassist Doug Watkins -- a perfect hard bop unit. With SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS Rollins threw down the gauntlet; 40 years later, he's still the tenorman to beat. Steve Futterman - Barnes & Noble |
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