Those who follow developments in the jazz community are accustomed to seeing occasional announcements about educational grants to musicians. Sonny Rollins this week reversed the order. He is becoming ...
For a 76 year-old man with a slight limp and an eccentric fashion sense, Sonny Rollins still managed to be the coolest person in Centennial Hall Friday. When the jazz icon staggered onstage clutching ...
Between 1953 and 1959, the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins released twenty-one full-length albums. This kind of prolificacy seems absurd now, during an era in which new musical material is meted out on ...
Raise your hands, jazz fans, if you've been thinking about jazz legend Sonny Rollins during the last few months. After all, the great man is still with us at age 94. Reaching such an age is an ...
Tribute to Sonny Rollins--his compositions as interpreted by other jazz musicians, including Jim Hall and Ron Carter, Lambert/Hendricks/Ross, Ted Curson and more. Two compositions from Sonny Rollins' ...
NPR: Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins Revisits Past Performances With 'Holding The Stage'
NPR: Sonny Rollins' big-hearted music speaks for itself on newly reissued 'Freedom Weaver'
In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week trip to Europe. Three hours from that tour are heard on a new Rollins-approved reissue.
Sonny Rollins' big-hearted music speaks for itself on newly reissued 'Freedom Weaver'
The New York Times: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sonny Rollins