He then signed to Blue Note, recording his label debut, Sonny Rollins, Volume 1 ... the album Newk's Time), he kept tinkering with his personnel. Feather reported in his liner notes that the ...

Sonny Rollins is a treasure among treasures. Tracks: Vienna 2006: They Say It's Wonderful; Global Warming; Sonny, Please; I See Your Face Before Me; Don't Stop The Carnival. Personnel: Vienna 2006: ...

Today, he has some thoughts about saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1959. Early in that year, Rollins took a trio to Europe for a tour documented on a new reissue. Five months later, he withdrew from ...

Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment in New York on Greenwich and Duane streets, six blocks from the World Trade Center, and he was in the apartment, up on the 40th floor, when the planes hit.

One of the indelible images of Sonny Rollins's career is of his practicing alone on the Williamsburg Bridge during his 1959-61 sabbatical from public performance. But the tenor saxophonist is no ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days ...

Books in Review Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins By Aidan Levy Buy this book Sonny Rollins is the last living progenitor of jazz’s make-it-new ascent during the 20th century.

Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era heavyweights like Coleman Hawkins and jump-blues saxophonists like Louis Jordan. But when he heard Charlie Parker and the torrid ...