Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Date:	Friday, June 22, 1956
Label/Number:	Prestige 7079
Personnel:	Sonny Rollins (ts) Tommy Flanagan (p) Doug Watkins (b) Max Roach (d)
Tracks:	You Don’t Know What Love Is / St. Thomas / Strode Rode / Blue Seven / Moritat
Location:	Hackensack
Producer:	Bob Weinstock
Liner Notes:	Ira Gitler
Research Comments:	Martin Williams called this “one of the classic LPs of modern jazz,” saying “it captures a great player in the discovery of greatness. It offers much exceptional music. And in ‘Blue 7’ it contains one of the few truly successful extended performances on records.”* * From annotation in The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz, 1987.
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Sources:	AJ CDJ TL CRZ PR1