Boxset / Compilation · 1975
Tracklist
A1 Moritat 10:02
A2 Blue Seven 11:17
A3 Strode Rode 5:12
B1 St. Thomas 6:45
B2 You Don't Know What Love Is 6:27
B3 Kids Know 11:38
C1 The House I Live In 9:20
C2 I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face 4:51
C3 Star Eyes 9:20
D1 I Feel A Song Comin' On 5:12
D2 Pent-Up House 8:50
D3 Kiss And Run 7:06
Line-up/Musicians
Bass – Doug Watkins (tracks: A1-B2), George Morrow (tracks: B3-D3)
Drums – Max Roach
Piano – Richie Powell (tracks: D1-D3), Tommy Flanagan (tracks: A1-B2), Wade Legge (tracks: B3-C3)
Tenor Saxophone – Sonny Rollins
Trumpet – Clifford Brown (tracks: D1-D3), Kenny Dorham (tracks: B3, C1, C3)
About this release
Prestige – P-24050 (US)
Side 1 and first two selections on Side 2 originally issued as Saxophone Colossus (Prestige 7079.
"The House I Live In" originally issued as part of Sonny Boy (Prestige 7207); the balance of sides 2 and 3 included on Sonny Rollins Plays For Bird (Prestige 7095).
Side 4 originally issued as part of Sonny Rollins Plus Four (Prestige 7038).
"Saxophone Colossus, the album that really made the jazz public fully aware of the majestic talents of Sonny Rollins, is combined here with seven other great performances from the same highly creative period in the long career of this major artist."
Thanks to snobb for the addition