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Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. [3] [4] In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader.
Welcome to the official website of Sonny Rollins, an American tenor saxophonist and composer whose eight-decade career has led him from Harlem to the White House and all over the world, and who is considered one of the most influential musicians in jazz.
Feb 24, 2020 · Sonny Rollins is, by any reasonable estimation, a genius. He is jazz’s greatest living improviser, able to imbue his solos with wry humor, surprise, brilliant logical form and profound...
In 2010 on the eve of his 80th birthday, Sonny Rollins became one of 229 leaders in the sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, business, and public affairs who have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonist of them...
Dec 5, 2022 · WBGO’s Lee Mergner talks with author Aidan Levy about Saxophone Colossus, his biography of jazz tenor titan Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins. Voted by Miles Davis as the greatest tenor ever, an inventive saxophonist and an astonishing soloist. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1940s - 2010s. Born. September 7, 1930 in New York, NY. Genre.
Apr 30, 2024 · WHITEHEAD: Sonny Rollins comes on like a few jazz greats combined. He has Louis Armstrong's teasing way with a melody, Charlie Parker's high-speed virtuosity and wit, tenor Lester Young's...
Sonny Rollins is an American jazz musician, a tenor saxophonist who is among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s. Rollins grew up in a neighbourhood where Thelonious Monk, Coleman Hawkins (his early idol), and Bud Powell were playing.
Sonny Rollins. 1983 NEA Jazz Master Sonny Rollins' towering achievements on the tenor saxophone and his use of Caribbean rhythms influenced by his parents' Virgin Islands roots have made him one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years.
