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Saxophone Colossus
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Within Vinony's link graph, Saxophone Colossus is referenced by 246 other articles, and connects out to album, Down Beat and The Rolling Stone Album Guide.
It sits within the topics 1957 albums, Album articles lacking alt text for covers and Albums produced by Bob Weinstock.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Sonny Rollins
- First released
- 1957-04-27
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 754,340
- Total plays
- 7,835,212
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Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (September 7, 1930 – May 25, 2026) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, Rollins recorded more than sixty albums as a leader. His 1956 album Saxophone Colossus was selected for preservation by the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016. A number of his compositions, including "St. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sonny+Rollins
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- hard bop
- Producer
- Bob Weinstock
- Performer
- Sonny Rollins
- Record label
- Prestige
- Distribution format
- LP record
Show 5 more facts
- publication date
- 1956-00-00
- place of publication
- United States
- form of creative work
- studio album
- title
- Saxophone Colossus
- number of parts of this work
- 5
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