Sonny RollinsBest Sonny Rollins Albums Ranked
7.9
Avg Score
26
Opinions
20
Albums
4
Reviewers
Summary from 26 ratings
On Rate.fm, fans have rated Sonny Rollins’s catalog across 20 albums from 26 opinions, with an overall average of 7.9/10. The top-rated Sonny Rollins album is Way Out West (1956) with a 8.5/10 average from 3 ratings, followed by The Bridge and Saxophone Colossus (Reissue). The discography on Rate.fm spans 1955 to 2023.
Way Out West
1956
The Bridge
1961
Saxophone Colossus (Reissue)
1956
East Broadway Run Down
1995
Sonny Rollins Plus 4
1956
Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings (feat. Han Bennink & Ruud Jacobs)
2020
Alfie (Original Music From The Score)
1966
Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums
2023
Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
1957
Way Out West
“Recorded in Los Angeles in 1957, the jazz legend’s classic album—the first to use the now-standard saxophone-bass-drums trio—looks like a novelty and sounds like transcendence.”
Go West!: The Contemporary Records Albums
“This new box documents a pair of late-’50s albums in which the New York saxophonist left an indelible mark on West Coast jazz.”
Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings (feat. Han Bennink & Ruud Jacobs)
“The creative acquisitiveness of improvisation sounds boundless in the work of jazz sax master Sonny Rollins. He turned 90 in September. Every timeless theme and every long-forgotten one, every pop hit or fragment of an aria, every quirky mannerism he has heard in the jostling soundtrack of the world seems to have been filed somewhere in his head. These fragments make warped reappearances live, som”