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AchievementJune 22, 1956· music

Sonny Rollins Records Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins recorded Saxophone Colossus for Prestige Records in a single session, producing one of the most celebrated jazz albums ever made. The album, including the calypso-inflected St. Thomas, demonstrated the breadth of Rollins's harmonic imagination and established him as the leading tenor saxophonist of his generation.