Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus | 2CD

Sonny Rollins is an American jazz tenor saxophonist born on September 7, 1930, in Harlem, New York City. He died on May 25, 2026, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 95. He made his first recordings in 1949 with Babs Gonzales and worked with Miles Davis, Art Taylor, J.J. Johnson, Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk.

This remastered 2010 two CD compilation, released in the UK by Not Now Music, is titled Saxophone Colossus and brings together three albums by Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus, Newk's Time and Tenor Madness. The recordings were made at the Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1956 and 1957, and were originally released on Prestige and Blue Note. Tenor saxophone is credited to Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, with Red Garland, Tommy Flanagan and Wynton Kelly on piano, Doug Watkins and Paul Chambers on bass, and Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach on drums.

Track List

Disc 1

1. St. Thomas
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Strode Rode
4. Moritat
5. Blue Seven

Disc 2

1. Tune Up
2. Asiatic Raes
3. The Surrey With The Fringe On Top
4. Wonderful! Wonderful!
5. Namely You
6. Blues For Philly Joe
7. Tenor Madness
8. When Your Lover Has Gone
9. Paul's Pal
10. My Reverie
11. The Most Beautiful Girl In The World