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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Traned' with Sonny Fortune
Traned with Sonny Fortune is a visual music composition using the medium of Photonality. Photonality uses the medium of music integrated with the properties of photography to create visual rhythmic scapes. This composition came from witnessing Sonny's interpretation of John Coltrane's Africa and Ole' and his own compositions Hanging out with JC. Sonny's genius with his ...
Saxophonist Sonny Fortune Profiled at AAJ
With an auspicious name like Sonny Fortune, could there be any doubt that this man would find success and fulfillment down whatever path he chose to follow in life. Fortune-ately for jazz lovers, he focused his talent and energy on the saxophone. Fortune's good fortune began at the beguine-ing; he was born at the right time, ...
Sonny Fortune: Thank God For That Day Job
by Chuck Koton
With an auspicious name like Sonny Fortune, could there be any doubt that this man would find success and fulfillment down whatever path he chose to follow in life. Fortune-ately for jazz lovers, he focused his talent and energy on the saxophone. Fortune's destiny began at the beguine-ing; he was born at ...
Besame Mucho
Featuring the music of Sonny Fortune
Duration: 9:27
You and the Night and the Music
Label: 18th & Vine
Released: 2007
Track listing: Sweet Georgia Brown; You and the Night and the Music; Charade; Round Midnight; Besame Mucho; Love Song; The End of a Love Affair; For Duke and Cannon; Bebop.
The Complete On The Corner Sessions
by John Kelman
Much has been written about what is perhaps trumpeter Miles Davis' most controversial album, On The Corner (Columbia, 1972). Already shaken from the electric onslaught of Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1969), A Tribute To Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970), and a series of live or, in the case of Live-Evil (Columbia, 1970), largely live releases, it was the ...
Sonny Fortune: You and the Night and the Music
by Troy Collins
From the generation of post-bop saxophonists following in the shadow of John Coltrane, multi-instrumentalist Sonny Fortune comes closest to capturing Coltrane's spirit and intensity. Since the late 1960s, Fortune has made an indelible mark on jazz history, collaborating with Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis and Mongo Santamaria, among other luminaries. Despite his numerous side-man appearances ...
Sonny Fortune: You and the Night and the Music
by Joel Roberts
While he's been overshadowed by other saxophonists throughout much of his career, Sonny Fortune has been an important force in jazz for many years, playing in a style that owes much to John Coltrane and was showcased in the bands of Coltrane's key collaborators, Elvin Jones and McCoy Tyner--as well as in a stint with Miles ...
Sonny Fortune: Trilogy Collection
Label: Sound Reason
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Four in One: Four in One; Criss Cross; Reflections; Monk's Dream; Hornin' In;
Coming on the Hudson; Trinkle Tinkle; Pannonica; Hackensack; Ask Me Now. CD2: A
Better Understanding: Mind Games; Laying it Down; Awakening; A Swing Touch; Never
Again is Such a Long Time; It Ain't What it Was; It's a Bird; Tribute to Holiday; Long Before Our
Mothers Cried. CD3: From Now On: Glue Fingers; This Side of Infinity; From Now On;
Come in Out of The Rain; Suspension; On Second and Fifth; Gift Of Love; Thoughts.
Sonny Fortune: Trilogy Collection
by Florence Wetzel
Sonny Fortune Trilogy Collection Sound Reason 2006 Jazz is blessed by the music of alto saxophonist and flutist Sonny Fortune, a living master who always plays directly from the heart. In addition to his work with Miles Davis, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Nat Adderley, and Mongo Santamaria, over the years ...
