The Bridge
by Sonny Rollins

The Bridge by Sonny Rollins
Year: 1962
Release date: 1962-04-00
Overall rank: 3,296th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 97 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top 10 albums of 1962 (9th)
Award Top albums of of the 1960s (283rd)
Award Best albums of all time (3,296th)

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Sonny Rollins bestography

The Bridge is ranked 2nd best out of 42 albums by Sonny Rollins on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Sonny Rollins is Saxophone Colossus which is ranked number 631 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 2,701.

Sonny Rollins album bestography « Higher ranked (631st)
Saxophone Colossus
This album (3,296th)
The Bridge
Lower ranked (3,307th) »
Way Out West

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 3,296th | 1960s rank: 283rd | 1962 rank: 9th

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Average Rating: 
78/100 (from 97 votes)
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05/28/2026 07:09 Liedzeit  Ratings distribution  2,44174/100
 
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12/20/2025 23:35 Exist-en-ciel  Ratings distribution  13,20970/100

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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 78.0/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.

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85/100
Super duper cool jazz with hard bop vibes
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From 12/06/2020 21:49 | #262166
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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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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95/100
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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