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The music is imbued with all the qualities that have earned Rollins the nickname Saxophone Colossus: the tone as weighty as marble yet as rhythmically fleet and fluid as mercury, the double - and triple-timed phrases that fill the toolkit of Rollins's fine art of melodic deconstruction.
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For home entertainment -- church -- lodge -- school or for Orchestra Dance Music, the Saxophone is the ideal instrument.
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There's a second verse, but before he can get quite into it, prancing Osbie is leaped upon and thoroughly pummeled, in part with his own stout banana, by Bartley Gobbitch, DeCoverley Pox, and Maurice ( "Saxophone") Reed, among others.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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The five-night series began Wednesday with John Coltrane's "Africa/Brass," played by Saxophone Summit.
Swinging Into New Styles Will Friedwald 2011
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But with 1956's Saxophone Colossus which debuted one of his signature tunes, the calypso St Thomas, Rollins revealed an improvising imagination some compared with Charlie Parker, notably on the slow-building, faintly sinister Blue Seven.
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Sonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.
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But with 1956's Saxophone Colossus which debuted one of his signature tunes, the calypso St Thomas, Rollins revealed an improvising imagination some compared with Charlie Parker, notably on the slow-building, faintly sinister Blue Seven.
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Playing and composing Music on the Piano, Saxophone, Guitar.
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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It was in Washington, DC at the age of 14 that Max started playing the Saxophone.
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Sonny Rollins is still a full-blown saxophone giant today at the age of 80, but they were calling him the Saxophone Colossus back in 1956.
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