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albummaster
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Gender: Male
Location: Spain
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- #1
- Posted: 04/03/2017 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#2317): Saxophone Colossus
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Today's album of the day
Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1956.
Country: 
Overall rank: 801
Average rating: 80/100 (from 199 votes).
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Tracks:
1. St. Thomas
2. You Don't Know What Love Is
3. Strode Rode
4. Moritat
5. Blue 7
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment 
- #2
- Posted: 04/03/2017 20:50
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A most excellent hard bop sax album! I love this one all the way through. My favorite Rollins and one of the top Sax albums of all time (currently #4 for me). Rollins is on fire throughout and it sure doesn't hurt having sidemen like the great Tommy Flanagan on piano and Max Roach on drums.
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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call
Gender: Male
Location: St. Louis
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HazeyTwilight
boyfriend in your wet dreams
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Location: Elmo Knows Where You Live 
- #4
- Posted: 04/03/2017 21:09
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60 years on and it's still going strong. One of my favourite jazz albums.
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Fratt Sinapp
Location: Ohio
- #5
- Posted: 04/03/2017 22:03
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My favorite of Sonny's after "Way out West". That opener is a classic indeed.
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stangetzaway
Gender: Male
Age: 54
Location: Melbourne 
- #6
- Posted: 04/03/2017 23:03
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Echoing the comments above, one of the all time great jazz albums. For those who are yet to dip their toes into the vast jazz ocean Saxophone Colossus is an ideal place to start.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #7
- Posted: 04/05/2017 05:34
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I'd take a sax soloist over any brass.
And the drumming on this is great.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment
- #8
- Posted: 04/05/2017 13:28
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| sethmadsen wrote: | I'd take a sax soloist over any brass.
And the drumming on this is great. |
I'll take trumpet over all those goose honking sounds any day. But I absolutely love this album, and Sonny's soloing. IMO that's a testament to how great this one is, that it so easily overcomes my natural bias and still vaults into the top echelon of my jazz collection.
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
- #9
- Posted: 04/05/2017 21:47
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| Fischman wrote: | | sethmadsen wrote: | I'd take a sax soloist over any brass.
And the drumming on this is great. |
I'll take trumpet over all those goose honking sounds any day. But I absolutely love this album, and Sonny's soloing. IMO that's a testament to how great this one is, that it so easily overcomes my natural bias and still vaults into the top echelon of my jazz collection. |
hehe - something tells me you also prefer the guitar over the bass.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment
- #10
- Posted: 04/05/2017 23:42
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| sethmadsen wrote: | | hehe - something tells me you also prefer the guitar over the bass. |
Well, that would be proof of jumping to conclusions not being wise 
I love bass. I actually play bass. (I play guitar also, but I've devoted most of my time to bass)
On any given day, I could name my bass heroes much more quickly than my guitar heroes (although I have many of both).
Caveat: this is mainly for rock and electric jazz. For blues and acoustic jazz, I lean back toward the guitarists.
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