SDP Jazz Note: St. Thomas

Via John Hinderaker comes this video of Sonny Rollins playing St. Thomas, which is on his Saxophone Colossus album.  As the album suggests, Rollins is a giant on the tenor sax, on par with John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon, and it's hard to go wrong with anything he's recorded.  He's backed by Max Roach on drums, Tommy Flanagan on piano, and Doug Watkins on bass.  St. Tomas in particular is important because he mixes Caribbean and Afro-Cuban sounds with traditional jazz instrumentation, anticipating Latin Jazz before it became mainstream.  If you like Saxophone Colossus, you might also enjoy his Freedom Suite, or move on to Joe Henderson's work, especially Page One.