![]() ![]() “ is one of those rare improvised performances in which every part is related to every other part, adding up to a whole greater than the sum of those parts, with details so subtle and perfectly in place that it might take a composer hours to arrive at – yet Rollins made it all up.” In fact, by the time Williams word were written it was becoming increasingly impossible for any jazz critic to fail to write about Rollins' solo on Blue 7 without fetishising it. Describing Blue 7 as “a masterpiece” he more or less gave a paraphrased echo of Schuller's findings. Indeed, there was more than a hint of them in Martin Williams sleeve notes for a reissue of Saxophone Colossus issued in the early the mid-1960s. 1958 was early days for putting a jazz solo under the microscope in this manner and the ripples of Schuller's forensic examination soon began to spread outwards into jazz folklore.
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