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Albums similar to Saxophone Colossus

These are the albums most often named alongside Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to Sonny Rollins, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

1. John Coltrane - Blue Train
2. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
3. Joe Henderson - So Near, So Far
4. Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
6. Abdullah Ibrahim - African River
7. Abercrombie/Johnson/Erskine - November
8. Duke Ellington - Live at Newport 1958
9. Eric Dolphy - Out There
10. Getz/Peterson Trio - Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson Trio
11. Gillespie/Stitt/Rollins - Sonny Side Up
12. Ginger Baker Trio - Going Back Home
13. Hall/Harrell - These Rooms
14. Houston Person - Goodness!
15. John Coltrane - Africa/Brass Vol.1 & 2
16. Keith Jarrett - Standards Vol. 2
17. Kenny Burrell - Guitar Forms
18. Lonnie Liston Smith - Drives
19. Melvin Sparks - Sparks / Akilah
20. Phil Woods - Birds of a Feather
21. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
22. Thelonious Monk - Thelonious in Action
23. Bob Weir - Ace
24. Thelonious Monk - Solo Monk
25. Chet Baker - Lets Get Lost-best Of
26. Wynton Marsalis - City Movement
27. Joe Henderson - State of the Tenor
28. Bill Evans - You Must Believe in Spring
29. Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris
30. John Coltrane - Meditations

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