Gil Scott Heron: Black Wax Plus 'Is That Jazz?'/Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Starring: Ed Brady, Gil ScottHeron Dvd Release: 23rd November, 1999 Number Of Discs: 2 Format: Colour, Special Edition, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Saxophone Colossus is one of Sonny Rollins most acclaimed albums. Recorded & released in 1956, it is indisputably the masterpiece of a series that he recorded with Max Roach in the mid to late 1950s. Of the five tracks on the album, three are by Rollins & two are standards. St. Thomas is a calypso-inspired piece named after Saint Thomas in the Virgin Islands ; the piece became one of Rollins best-known compositions & this was its first recording. You Dont know What Love Is is a ballad standard by Don Raye & Gene DePaul, covered by everyone from Chet Baker to Cassandra Wilson & given a distinctively bleak treatment by Rollins. Strode Rode is an up-tempo hard bop number, notable for its staccato motif & for a brief, high-spirited duet between Rollins & Doug Watkins on bass. The tune is named after the Strode Lounge, a jazz club in 1950s Chicago. The second side of the original LP consists of two longer cuts, both in B flat. Moritat is another standard, a song from Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill s The Threepenny Opera, better known in English as Mack the Knife.

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