Al Foster, the jazz drummer who performed in groundbreaking bands with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, has died. He was 82. Foster’s partner Bonnie Rose Steinberg told NPR in a ...

LOS ANGELES — Al Foster, the jazz drummer who performed in groundbreaking bands with Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock and Sonny Rollins, has died. He was 82. Foster's partner Bonnie Rose Steinberg ...

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 ...

Three Excellent Audiophile-Worthy Vintage Jazz Reissues From Universal Music, Verve Records & Acoustic Sounds Feature Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz and Kai Winding & J.J. Johnson w/ Bill Evans Three ...

Saxophone giant Sonny Rollins had already established himself throughout the 1950s with a string of albums on the Prestige label, including the esteemed Saxophone Colossus, which was released shortly ...

Sonny Rollins is one of the great saxophone improvisers of jazz history. He plays with the passion and energy of a giant, the wit and humor of a streetwise New Yorker, and a lover's knowledge of ...

Sonny Rollins did something highly unusual in modern entertainment: he ascended to the top of his field and then dropped off the radar. Vanished. Disappeared. The legend is Rollins was ...

Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album says, a “Saxophone Colossus.” Indefatigable in improvisation, uncorrupted in artistry, and always swinging and melodious, Mr. Rollins (b.

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 ...

“I was getting a lot of publicity for my work at that time, but I wasn’t satisfying my own requirements for what I wanted to do musically,” Sonny Rollins told Guardian jazz critic John ...

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.

The 1957 Sonny Rollins release “Way Out West” was one of the first jazz albums I ever shelled out for from my hard-earned Burger King money as an teenager in the ’80s. The cover image of ...