Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus

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Label:	Prestige – LP 7079, Prestige – PRLP 7079
Format:	Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country:	US
Released:	Apr 1957
Genre:	Jazz
Style:	Bop

Tracklist

A1		St. Thomas Written-By – Rollins*
A2		You Don't Know What Love Is Written-By – Raye, DePaul
A3		Strode Rode Written-By – Rollins*
B1		Moritat Written-By – Weil*
B2		Blue Seven Written-By – Rollins*

Companies, etc.

Record Company – Prestige Records Inc.
Pressed By – Abbey Record Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Printed By – GEM Albums, Inc.
Published By – Prestige Music (3)
Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Credits

Bass – Doug Watkins
Cover – Hannan*
Drums – Max Roach
Lacquer Cut By – RVG*
Liner Notes – Ira Gitler
Piano – Tommy Flanagan
Recorded By – Van Gelder*
Supervised By [Supervision] – Bob Weinstock
Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins

Notes

1st pressing with West 50th Street address on both labels and back cover.

Recorded at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, June 22, 1956

Laminated sleeve (on front only).

CATALOG NUMBERS:
- Prestige 7079 on front and back of sleeve as well as on spine
- PRLP 7079 on labels

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Matrix / Runout (Etched runout side A): PRLP - 7079 - A RVG AB
Matrix / Runout (Etched runout side B): PRLP - 7079 - B RVG AB
Matrix / Runout (Side A Stamped): B
Matrix / Runout (Side B Stamped): C
Rights Society: BMI

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
Recently Edited	Saxophone Colossus (LP, Album, Mono)	Esquire	32-045	UK	1958
New Submission	Saxophone Colossus (LP, Album, Repress, Mono)	Prestige, Prestige	LP 7079, PRLP 7079	US	1958
New Submission	Saxophone Colossus (LP, Album, Repress, Mono)	Prestige, Prestige	LP 7079, PRLP 7079	US	1958
New Submission	Saxophone Colossus (LP, Album, Mono)	Top Rank International	RANK-5004	Japan	1959
New Submission	Le Colosse Du Saxophone (LP, Album, Mono)	Barclay	84 084	France	1961

Reviews

Anthon40 Apr 18, 2014
saw this dude in the late 90's at the house of blues-- still blowin' hard Hard HARD but it was a lot of caylipso shit so what the F?.....