The Bridge (studio album) by Sonny Rollins

The Bridge by Sonny Rollins
Year: 1962
Overall rank: 3,545th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 82 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1962 (10th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (309th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,545th)
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Sonny Rollins bestography

The Bridge is ranked 2nd best out of 40 albums by Sonny Rollins on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sonny Rollins is Saxophone Colossus which is ranked number 660 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,721.

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The Bridge track list

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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 82 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.2/100, a mean average of 78.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.5.

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85/100
From 06/10/2022 11:26
Super duper cool jazz with hard bop vibes
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From 12/06/2020 21:49
72/100

Best tracks: Without A Song, Where Are You?, You Do Something To Me
Worst tracks: John S., God Bless the Child
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From 07/31/2017 18:07
A very relaxing and mellow listen. Exactly the kind of thing you think of when someone mentions an easy jazz album. Which is not to say it's trivial. Just really easy on the ear.
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From 11/17/2016 00:39
Gorgeous laid back suite of ice cool jazz. This concoction must be one of the best jazz albums of the 60's.
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Best Albums of 1962
1. Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music by Ray Charles
2. Waltz For Debby by Bill Evans Trio
3. Howlin' Wolf by Howlin' Wolf
4. Bob Dylan by Bob Dylan
5. Green Onions by Booker T. & The M.G.'s
6. Go by Dexter Gordon
7. Tous Les Garçons Et Les Filles by Françoise Hardy
8. Tijuana Moods by Charles Mingus
9. Jazz Samba by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd
10. The Bridge by Sonny Rollins
11. Takin' Off by Herbie Hancock
12. Crying by Roy Orbison
13. Coltrane "Live" At The Village Vanguard by John Coltrane
14. Oh Yeah by Charles Mingus
15. Mosaic by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
16. Peter, Paul And Mary by Peter, Paul And Mary
17. Surfin' Safari by The Beach Boys
18. Coltrane by John Coltrane Quartet
19. Sentimentally Yours by Patsy Cline
20. Jacques Brel (Les Bourgeois) by Jacques Brel
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