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Album

Saxophone Colossus

Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2009
Track listing: Saint Thomas; You Don't Know What Love Is; Strode Rode; Moritat; Blue; There's No Business Like Show Business; Paradox; Raincheck; There Are Such Things; It's All Right with Me.

Album

Complete Studio Recordings

By Sonny Rollins

Label: Essential Jazz Classics
Released: 2009
Track listing: Gertrude's Bounce; Step Lightly (Junior's Arrival); Powell's Prances; I'll Remember April; Times; The Scene Is Clean; Flossie Lou; What Is This Thing Called Love?; Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing; I Feel a Song Coming On; Pent-Up House; Valse Hot; Kiss and Run; Count Your Blessings.

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Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Read "Saxophone Colossus" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli

by Eric J. Iannelli
September 14, 2009

Bass drum. High hat. A primal, hollow beat in triple succession. The sequence repeats, increasingly accentuated with quick rim shot bursts and precision hits to the tom. Then, stage set, the sax leaps in. A bright Caribbean calypso melody, its refrain only twelve notes long. Its vibrancy and simplicity give it an instantaneous appeal--fitting, given the ...

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Clifford Brown / Sonny Rollins / Max Roach Quintet: Complete Studio Recordings

Read "Complete Studio Recordings" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli

by Eric J. Iannelli
July 3, 2009

Even now, fifty-three years after Clifford Brown's untimely death (a multiple tragedy that also took the lives of pianist Richie Powell and his wife), his recordings are still being mined for fresh--or rather, refreshed-- releases. Although it's not entirely clear why this particular lineup merits this particular release at this particular time, any Brownie is good ...