SONNY ROLLINS Saxophone Colossus DCC Audiophile RARE
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Description
SONNY ROLLINS Saxophone Colossus NEW & SEALED Vinyl LP
Record label/brand: DCC LPZ 2008 upc/mpn: None year: 1956
Remastered by Steve Hoffman on DCC’s vintage Vacuum-Tube Playback System, this is DCC's audiophile re-release of Sonny Rollin's 1956 breakthrough jazz release, Saxophone Colossus.
Limited edition (No. 1909). 180g, pure virgin vinyl, analogue pressing.
DCC has gone out of business and their fantastic sounding audiophile releases are growing scarce and are in high demand. Get this one while you still can!
Songs:
Side 1 1. St. Thomas 2. You Don't Know What Love Is 3. Strode Rode
Side 2 4. Moritat (Theme From "Threepenny Opera") 5. Blue 7
Review: With Saxophone Colossus, Sonny Rollins created a personal vision of the tenor saxophone and modern jazz brimming over with joy and conviction. Saxophone Colossus was a breakthrough recording, praised for its lyrical power, thematic logic, relentless swing and spontaneous invention.
Borrowing a page from his West Indian roots, Rollins' "St. Thomas" employed elements of Caribbean folk melodies and calypso rhythms to create an exotic, dancing tenor anthem--one of the most identifiable, beloved themes in all of jazz--driven along by Max Roach's melodic drumming, Tommy Flannagan's shimmering accompaniment, and the saxophonist's swaggering melodic invention.
Rollins displayed fresh harmonic power and innovative methods of thematic develpment throughout Saxophone Colossus. On the swinging starts and stops of "Strode Rode" and the dreamy blues cycles of "Blue 7," Rollins began his solos with simple melodic motifs, and orchestrated them into grand, elongated thematic statement... every note made meaningful by Rollins' extraordinary sense of development and intuitive musical architecture. In addition, his tenor timbre took on renewed vigor and complexity on two ballads: "Moritat" (our old friend "Mack The Knife") and his epic reading of "You Don't Know What Love Is."
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