Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus - best LP?

i also love this recording.

i don't have an original pressing.

i have both the DCC 33 and the AP 45.

the DCC is great; but everything the DCC does the 45 goes one better. the 45 particularly has more space and depth, more bite, less a sense of a recording, the drum kit has more articulation and dynamic life, the 45 swings more, has more ease and flow, the sax is bigger and bolder, and on and on. tonally; they are similar and the DCC is excellent in that area.

these are mostly small differences; you just see farther into the recording on the 45 verses looking at the recording on the DCC.

i am a subscriber to 'The Tape Project' and 'Saxophone Colossus' is due to arrive in the next couple of months. that would be a 15ips 1/4" first generation master dub (off a 1" working master) of this beauty. i cannot wait to compare the tape to the 45.

Great stuff no matter what recording...a must have for jazz lovers!!

Thanks Mike, I'm afraid your reply was just what I expected.. Ah well. ;) If anybody wants to sell me this 45rpm set, please send me an email!

Digsmithd - oh yes, indeed!!

If you like Colossus try "Way Out West". Also a really great recording on Contemporary. Its a trio date - Rollins with, if I'm not mistaken, Ray Brown and Shelly Manne. Another amazing performance and very well recorded. If you can find one, I might recommend a mono copy. The stereo mix has that early two channel disease where the sax is hard panned to the left and the bass and drums are hard to the right making the the whole thing sound a little funny.

Yeah, if you could find the AP 45rpm, it's the one to have IMHO. I see that Acoustic Sounds is back ordered.

"Way Out West" is great. "The Bridge" is my other favorite, pehaps thanks to Jim Hall accompanying on guitar.

Dave