With two STUNNING Shootout Winning Triple Plus (A+++) sides, this 60s Gold Label Prestige Mono pressing is certainly as good a copy as we have ever heard
An especially good sounding recording and one that we rarely have on the site, and copies in true mono are the rarest of them all
The sound is everything that’s good about Rudy Van Gelder‘s recordings – it’s present, spacious, full-bodied, Tubey Magical, dynamic and, most importantly, alive
Need I even mention have completely this Hot Stamper pressing will obliterate any and all Heavy Vinyl contenders you may have heard? No? OK, good, I won’t mention it
If the drum opening of “St. Thomas” doesn’t do it for you, I don’t know what will
Marks in the vinyl are sometimes the nature of the beast with these vintage LPs – there simply is no way around them if the superior sound of vintage analog is important to you
5 stars: “Sonny Rollins recorded many memorable sessions during 1954-1958, but Saxophone Colossus is arguably his finest all-around set… Essential music[.]”
This is a Must Own jazz album from 1957 that belongs in every jazz-loving audiophile’s collection
