Saxophone Colossus Teal Vinyl

Great Classic Jazz Album ! Sonny Rollins, one of the all time greatest sax players.

Product was exactly as advertised and arrived ahead of schedule. I will buy from this seller again.

I would comment too much about the music here because so much has been written about this. Suffice to say, this album is a classic and the music is great.Instead I want to talk about the quality of this particular edition. It's outstanding. Don't be fooled by the colored vinyl aspect of it either. I'm sure a teal LP will look gimmicky to many people but ignore that for a second. This is first rate in terms of sound quality. For whatever reason, the people behind this release decided to use stampers made from older mother plates that are actually from a now out of print 90s Audiophile pressing mastered by Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman. If you don't already know about these folks Google their names. Anyway, besides the excellent mastering this was pressed at RTI, which is one of the best, if not the best pressing plant in America.All this means you get an audiophile-quality release for around $20, which is a bargain. Of course the packaging isn't nearly as fancy as the records you get from Mobile Fidelity, Analog Productions, or Music Matters, but it is more than serviceable. I can live without a deluxe gatefold or tip-on Stoughton printed jacket. What I want first and foremost is sound quality, and that is what this release delivers. Highly recommended.P.S. the Newbury Comics edition of Sonny Rollin's and John Coltrane's "Tenor Madness" LP on Red Vinyl was done in the same manner as this one and uses stampers made from a cut done by Hoffman and Gray. I cannot vouch for the quality any any other Newbury exclusive editions though.

what Sonny does is as close to perfect as it gets

The media could not be loaded. Great condition & sounds amazing..... The video doesn't do it justice!!

What's not to love? A superb recording of a world-class jazz saxophonist on teal-green vinyl. Unfortunately, not all new vinyl sounds great, but this LP sounds so good I immediately bought another as a gift for an audiophile friend.

Outstanding collection for all jazz fans

Extraordinary album by an extraordinary artist.

Excelente compra para aquellos que nos gusta el Jazz y el buen sonido. "Saxophone Colossus" es la obra de un músico que huye de la rutina. El disco empieza con el tema "St Thomas", la batería de Max Roach, introduce la pegadiza melodía del calipso, continua con una preciosa balada "You doin't know love is", y culmina con el original "Strode Rode". En el ultimo tema, llega el recreo y asombro con el prodigioso "Blue 7", un excelente ejemplo de lo que puede hacer un músico creativo con la sencilla armadura del blues.

Zur Colossus ist ja schon genug gesagt worden. Aber die 2.te CD hat es in sich. Modern Jazz in Höchstform mit Raum zur Improvisation. Eine absolute Kaufempfehlung.

Sonny Rollins è uno dei più grandi saxofonisti di sempre, lunga ed eccezionale carriera, ha suonato e collaborato con tutti i più grandi del jazz di sempre, tra cui Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Cobham, Charlie Parker, Art Blakey ...L'album contenuto nel primo disco "Saxophone Colossus" è incluso spesso nella top ten dei migliori dischi jazz di sempre. Il secondo disco invece include altri due album "Newk's Time" e "Tenor Madness", altrettanto validi. La formazione dei tre dischi è un quartetto in cui oltre al sax ci sono piano, basso e batteria. Nel terzo album c'è anche la presenza di John Coltrane.Musica davvero gradevole, soprattutto se si apprezzano i brani jazz con il sax che fa da protagonista!I 3 dischi sono stati registrati tra il 1956 e 1957 al rinomato "Rudy Van Gelder Studio", e nella versione digitally remastered in cui sono presentati hanno una resa sonora ottima!All'ottimo prezzo offerto (circa 5 euro) il prodotto ha un rapporto qualità-prezzo eccellente e quindi ne consiglio l'acquisto!Se la recensione ti è stata utile, ti chiedo gentilmente di segnalarlo premendo il pulsante apposito "Sì" (dopo aver fatto il login). Grazie.

La masterisation est tout simplement époustouflante.Parfait pour vous enivrer de Sonny Rollins avec une superbe qualité sonore, sur des enregistrements ne datant pourtant pas d'hier !Ce qui en fait un album de choix pour relever des solos.

When I was in my teens, in the late 1960s, I used to see a bald, paunchy, behatted figure somewhere in his thirties, twisted over a sax (usually of the soprano variety) on Waterloo Bridge near the South Bank Centre, playing for hours on end to the wind, to the Thames, and to young jazz lovers like me. I hope I managed to give lovely Lol Coxhill a few coins, for it was he.Lol was and is an almost exact contemporary of Sonny Rollins, who has now turned eighty and is still playing, bless his beard. (So is Lol, as far as I know, and he was always well worth catching, beard or no beard.) The point is, Lol was a big fan of Rollins - as indeed who wouldn`t have been back then? - and his tenure on that bridge in London was no doubt as much inspired by the American`s nighttime sojourns on a similar bridge in New York in the early `60s as it was by the need to earn a precarious crust.The three albums on this enterprising 2-disc bonanza from the NotNow label, who do this kind of blues & jazz repackaging rather well, are self-recommending, the more so if you already know how tremendous a force in jazz Sonny has been for the last sixty years or so. All three show the tenor man at his early peak, with an uncluttered, unsentimental, gently burnished tone, capable of caressing a ballad or swinging with the best on an uptempo workout.Tommy Flanagan is the pianist on the marvellous Saxophone Colossus - you know from the first moments of St Thomas that you`re in safe hands, and each track is a gem -while Wynton Kelly fills the piano chair most eloquently on Newk`s Time. Playing piano on Tenor Madness is Red Garland. Three great pianists...before we`ve even begun to mention Max Roach`s succinct, idiosyncratic drumming on Colossus or Philly Joe Jones performing similar duties on the other two albums.Of course, a big draw on the weakly, not to say optimistically titled Tenor Madness from 1956 (the earliest date here, by a mere month) is one John Coltrane, at 29 the elder musician by four years, but with fewer records to his name at that time. It`s a very fine album, though no more than that. They are both too similar and too different for the meeting to be more than simply superb jazz; there`s nothing you could call incendiary to be heard, particularly after the two unimprovable albums that precede it on these discs. However, listen to the title track (the only one on which Trane appears, not clear unless you read the small print) and hear two great sax players trading riffs in gorgeous sound - as if it were recorded yesterday - and you`ll hear an example of what jazz at its best is all about. Tenor Madness is a peerless, fearless document of a one-off meeting between two great musicians in their young and eager pomp. It`s great stuff.This release, with its excellent packaging and Michael Heatley`s sleevenotes, is a welcome bargain, and is packed to the rafters with tremendous music.Not so long after these discs, Sonny could be seen sometimes on a certain bridge... But that`s another story.