Saxophone Colossus

Album by Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released in 1956. The music is rooted in hard bop and blues, with forceful tenor sax improvisation over driving rhythm sections and economical arrangements, and the album helped establish Rollins's reputation as a major tenor voice in postwar jazz.

Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins - album cover

First released: 1987

Jazz Hard Bop

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1.
St. Thomas
6:47
2.
You Don't Know What Love Is
6:29
3.
Strode Rode
5:14
4.
Die Moritat von Mackie Messer (The Ballad of Mack the Knife) A Theme From "The Threepenny Opera"
10:06
5.
Blue 7
11:14