Sonny Rollins records Saxophone Colossus

1956: Number 25 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of dance musicSonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.Rollins is one of the few surviving links to jazz's formative years, as a neighbourhood friend and playing partner of Thelonious Monk, and sideman with Miles Davis and the popular Modern Jazz Quartet in the early 1950s. Splicing the huge sound and harmonic subtlety of swing-era ten...

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