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Sonny Rollins Trio: Shadow Waltz (Solar/Southbound)

...deceptive: first there was never any one "Sonny Rollins Trio" as the title suggets, and Shadow...

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SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS; THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SONNY ROLLINS by AIDAN LEVY

...1956, the year he turned 26, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins appeared on 10 albums, among them six as... ...around to become one of Rollins' champions. Sonny Rollins – 94 at the time of this writing –... ...which ended up on their 1981 Tattoo You album. Sonny Rollins is a towering figure in contemporary music who... .... SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS; THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF SONNY ROLLINS by AIDAN LEVY Hachette $35 For more on Sonny...

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SONNY ROLLINS INTERVIEWED (2011): The old lion still prowling

...US jazz critic, said of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins that he was “one of the last...

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SONNY ROLLINS; BEYOND THE NOTES a doco by DICK FONTAINE

...the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins came to New Zealand in 2011, it was my... ...over the decades. That insightful Arena doco Sonny Rollins; Beyond the Notes (screening in New Zealand on... ...is a fine introduction to not just the great Sonny Rollins but also makes the convincing argument for the...

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Konitz, Mehldau, Haden, Motian: Live at Birdland (ECM/Ode)

...Konitz steps up (on Miles Davis' Solar and Sonny Rollins' Oleo, both rejigged), you are transported to...

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John Abercrombie Quartet: Within a Song (ECM/Ode)

...invention and vibrancy in jazz -- through Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis,...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Byron Asher

...compares him with the melodic invention of Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman with flavours of Dexter... ...You would go to . . ? I’d like to hear Sonny Rollins practice on the Williamsburg Bridge, which...

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THE ROLLING STONES; 1981 TO NOW: On with the show . . .

...That discovery of additional material -- here Sonny Rollins (uncredited) on sax -- is unfortunately rare...

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GUEST RADIO HOST GRAHAM DONLON offers his 101 classic albums

...80. Eric Dolphy – Last Date 81. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus 82. Marion Brown...

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NILS-HENNING ORSTED PEDERSEN INTERVIEWED (2001): All basses covered

...greatest names in music such as Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and Bill Evans. And he's had an association...

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Elsewhere Art . . . David Sanborn

...which featured the likes of Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins, Al Green, the Residents, Nice Cave, Boots...

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Billy Hart: All Our Reasons (ECM/Ode)

...which has the kind of stop-start signatures of Sonny Rollins but also swings gently as bassist Ben Street...

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The Stan Getz Quartet: Getz at the Gate; Live at the Village Gate, Nov 26, 1961 (Verve)

...with Kuhn inventively tearing it apart; Sonny Rollins' dramatic and sprinting Airegin which Rollins...

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JAZZ: A FILM by KEN BURNS (DVD): The never-ending story

...too much screen time; musicians such as Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson could, and...

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Larry Carlton. Bruce Mason Centre, Auckland. June 6 2014

...we see – recently Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and Joshua Redman and so on – are...

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RAVI COLTRANE INTERVIEWED (2007): First rays of the new rising son

...Bird played with Monk, Monk played with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins played Miles, Miles played with...

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FURTHER PROVOCATIONS OF RATTLES (2023): From the sublime to the not-mundane

...by death, simple walks, the Buddha and Sonny Rollins. Those are damn fine reference points. And...

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Holm-Svendsen, Sommer, Praśniewski: Totem (April Records/digital outlets)

...off from the likes of Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins as this trio of Christian Holm-Svendsen...

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JOHN COLTRANE AND MILES DAVIS: Genius at work and playing, 1955-61

...and bassist Paul Chambers. But saxophonist Sonny Rollins needed to clean up his own drug habit outside...

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PETER BROTZMANN INTERVIEWED (2014): Freedom isn't frightening

...still finds value and interest in the music of Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins but jazz selling points or...

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ORNETTE COLEMAN, DAVE BRUBECK AND ME: A Song For Guy

...it. And of being seated on the stage when Sonny Rollins played at Ronnie Scott’s club in London....

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CHARLIE WATTS, REPLAYED AND REMEMBERED (2021): The sultan of swing

...Billy Preston (keyboards) and jazz legend Sonny Rollins (sax) but included here because it illustrates...

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BEST OF ELSEWHERE 2011, READERS' CHOICES

...- Great benefit album Also Chocolate Genius, Sonny Rollins - Way out West, Micky Newbury - Frisco Mabel...

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Grant Green: Funk in France; From Paris to Antibes 1969-1970 (Resonance)

...But elsewhere on the first disc he reaches to Sonny Rollins' Oleo for a mercurial treatment of one of his...

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THELONIOUS MONK AND JOHN COLTRANE IN 1957: Genius loves company

...Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Chet Baker and Sonny Rollins. That must have been quite a night. The...

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Various Artists: The Best of Blue Note (Blue Note/Universal)

...of course) through John Coltrane (Blue Train), Sonny Rollins (Tune Up) and Art Blakey and the Jazz... ...Brown Blue Train - John Coltrane Tune Up - Sonny Rollins Moanin' - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers...

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JOE LOVANO, A CAREER CONSIDERATION (2004): Sax in every direction

...to a more polished Sanders, others hear a soft Sonny Rollins – and so his project of ballads...

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KIWIJAHZZ. FURTHER AND FURTHERER INSTALLMENTS (2021): More notes from beneath the underground

...the 13this from his mid Fifties sessions with Sonny Rollins and is not a common piece for jazz musicians...

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Jack DeJohnette: Sound Travels (Shock)

...Sonny Light pays tribute to Sonny Rollins' bright and playful pieces in the same manner...

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Johnson/Dreyer/Lockett: Any Last Requests (digital outlets)

...of material like Herbie Hancock's Driftin', Sonny Rollins' Valse Hot, the delightfully languid ballad My...

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Keith Jarrett Trio, My Foolish Heart (2007)

...with treatments of Monk's Straight No Chaser, Sonny Rollins' Oleo and Miles Davis' Four, and reaches back...

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BRANFORD MARSALIS INTERVIEWED (1988): Family matters

...on to say how great saxophone players like Sonny Rollins and Wayne Shorter have shown him how they can...

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MONTY ALEXANDER INTERVIEWED (2002): Keys to Sinatra and Bob Marley

...Judy Garland; has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis and Milt Jackson; appeared on the...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Jonas Kullhammar

...really affected you was . . ? St Thomas by Sonny Rollins. When did you first realise this jazz thing... ...bedroom forever would be . . . Way Out West by Sonny Rollins. Three non-jazz albums for a desert island...

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NBQ: New Bop Quintet (Manu/digital outlets)

...Parker, Dexter Gordon, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins and many, many more who defined jazz for most...

Tagged with: new zealand jazz |

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Sons of Kemet: Your Queen is a Reptile (Impulse!)

...on the label like Pharoah Sanders, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane and others. Like so many...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Paul Van Ross

...life you have read is . . . Loved reading the Sonny Rollins story. If you could get on stage with anyone...

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WAYNE SHORTER ON THE FRONTLINE AGAIN: The Grammy-magnet

...considered the heir to the John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins lineage and crashed onto the jazz scene in the...

Tagged with: blue note | herbie hancock | wayne shorter |

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10 CLASSIC BLUE NOTE COVERS (2014): Making the music look good

...and paid homage to down the decades. * Artist Sonny Rollins. Released 1957. Cover design Harold Feinstein....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE . . . Lucien Johnson

...in the Coltranes' spiritual music, Sun Ra, Sonny Rollins and evocative soundtracks. Time then for...

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BILL FRISELL PROFILED (2017): Guitarist without portfolio

...Jimi Hendrix and his jazz interest in Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis. In 2011 he recorded All We...

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THE BLUE NOTE LABEL AT 75 (2014): Vision, visuals and visionaries in jazz

...Coleman, Dexter Gordon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and dozens of others) and which would give its...

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Lucien Johnson: Wax///Wane (Deluge/digital outlets)

...which stops just the right side of furious (as Sonny Rollins was wont to do in his middle period). But here...

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Freddie McCoy: Spider Man (1966)

...collection which includes keen grooves by Sonny Rollins (St Thomas), Red Garland (Manteca), Thelonious...

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Hip Flask: Hip Flask2 (Rattle Jazz)

...tenor returns in the manner of a declamatory Sonny Rollins. As a centrepiece on the album it is quite an...

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DAVID SANBORN, JAZZ AND ELSEWHERE SAXOPHONIST INTERVIEWED (1992): Where it's at, wherever "at" is at.

...the show would bring together Leonard Cohen, Sonny Rollins and Was Not Was on the same show. Al Green... ...score for The Naked Lunch and – like Sonny Rollins – he’s playing better now than he...

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St GERMAIN, RETHOUGHT (2021): 20 YEARS ON AND STILL TRAVELING

...Us3 had sampled Blue Note's Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Hancock for their '95 album Hand on the...

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Paul Bley: Play Blue (ECM/Ode)

...final piece is a jaunty and playful take on Sonny Rollins' Pent-Up House . . . but to get to that jigsaw...

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LENNIE TRISTANO REMEMBERED: Jazz piano in a classical manner

...himself few favours by saying John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins and Miles Davis were, “all emotion, no...

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MIKE NOCK, INTERVIEWED (2024): The art of having serious fun

...on that influential Jazz at Massey Hall album, Sonny Rollins who he rehearsed with, and Miles Davis who...

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PHAROAH SANDERS; IN THE BEGINNING (2013): The call of the free

...been a drummer, he was initially influenced by Sonny Rollins while working in California then had embraced...

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Shabaka and the Ancestors: We Are Sent Here By History (Impulse!/digital outlets)

...Ayler and Archie Shepp, and cutting-edge Sonny Rollins and Pharoah Sanders, as it does to the...

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Lloyd McNeill: Asha (Universal Sounds/Southbound)

...alongside Rahsaan Roland Kirk, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins and other jazz giants – looks to...

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Stefano Bollani: Joy in Spite of Everything (ECM/Ode)

...frequently shift between the buoyant end of Sonny Rollins' calypso style (Easy Healing), allusions to...

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JOSHUA REDMAN INTERVIEWED (2014): Beatles, Bach and beyond

...influence alongside others he admired such as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon...

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UNCOMPROMISING EXPRESSION; BLUE NOTE by RICHARD HAVERS

...Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey . . ....

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE QUESTIONNAIRE: Greg Fleming

...from jazz guys like Art Pepper, Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins and Benny Golson… otherwise –...

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PAT METHENY INTERVIEWED (2020): The confounding career of Pat Metheny

...with his group or legendary jazz players like Sonny Rollins and Coleman, creating pure noise or beautiful... ...audible awe, “it was like being around Sonny Rollins or someone. He was a master. It was one of the...

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THE FAMOUS ELSEWHERE JAZZ QUESTIONNAIRE: Roger Manins

...style, but reference points might also be Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. So he is part of a lineage...

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CHASING TRANE; THE JOHN COLTRANE DOCUMENTARY a doco by JOHN SCHEINFELD (Rhino DVD/BluRay)

...genius alongside Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins and others in the jazz pantheon, Coltrane came... ...who played with him (Benny Golson and Sonny Rollins especially moving in their testimonials),...

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