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Saxophone Colossus is the sixth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins's best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record. [4] It was recorded monophonically on June 22, 1956, with producer Bob Weinstock and engineer Rudy Van Gelder at the latter's studio in Hackensack, New Jersey.
The album won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group and Best Engineered Recording - Non-Classical. "The Girl from Ipanema" also won the award for Record of the Year in 1965. This was the first time a jazz album received Album of the Year.
Kenneth Bruce Gorelick (born June 5, 1956), known professionally as Kenny G, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist, composer, and producer. [1] His 1986 album Duotones brought him commercial success. [1] Kenny G is one of the best-selling artists of all time, with global sales totaling more than 75 million records. [2]
A Love Supreme has appeared on professional listings of the greatest albums. In 2003, it was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone ' s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time; [9] maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list, [37] re-ranking at number 66 in a 2020 reboot of the list. [38] NME ranked it number 188 on a similar list in 2013. [39]
Kenny G is the debut studio album by American jazz saxophonist Kenny G, released in 1982 by Arista Records. It reached number 10 on the Billboard Jazz Albums chart. Track listing
American saxophonist Kenny G has released fifteen studio albums, eighteen compilation albums, and forty-one singles.He released his self-titled debut album on Arista Records in 1982 and remained with that label until 2006.
The cover is a photograph from the Greatest Hits booklet with water superimposed over the top. The packaging for the single declared itself to be 'The first instrumental version available of this classic theme for all time'. Since this first release, it has appeared on every Kenny G greatest hits compilation.
Kind of Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis.It was released on August 17, 1959 through Columbia Records.For the recording, Davis led a sextet featuring saxophonists John Coltrane and Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, pianist Bill Evans, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Jimmy Cobb, with new band pianist Wynton Kelly appearing on one track—"Freddie ...