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The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years

By Sonny Rollins

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: CD1: The Bridge; God Bless the Child; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Don't Stop the Carnival; If Ever I Would Leave You; Jungoso; Doxy. CD2: There Will Never Be Another You; All the Things You Are; Lover Man; Just Friends; Now's the Time; St. Thomas; 'Round Midnight; Afternoon in Paris; Four; My Ship; Love Letters; Trav'lin' Light.

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Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert)

By Sonny Rollins

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Sonny Rollins: tenor saxophone; Clifton Anderson: trombone; Stephen Scott: piano, kalimba (2); Bob Cranshaw: electric bass; Perry Wilson: drums; Kimati Dinizulu: percussion.

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert)

Read "Without a Song (The 9/11 Concert)" reviewed by George Harris

by George Harris

Where were you on 9/11? Sonny Rollins was in his New York apartment, six blocks away from the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Persuaded by his wife to honor his commitment to perform, he delivered a magnificent and audibly moving concert at the Berklee Performing Arts Center four days later. Without a Song ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years

Read "The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years" reviewed by Jim Santella

by Jim Santella

Recorded in 1962-64, Sonny Rollins' RCA sessions encompassed six LPs and several tracks for a three-artist sampler album. This two-CD set, containing material selected from The Bridge, What's New?, Our Man in Jazz, Sonny Meets Hawk!, Now's the Time, The Standard Sonny Rollins, and 3 in Jazz, has been released to honor the jazz giant, who ...

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News: Radio

Premiere All About Jazz Podcast features Sonny Rollins - Dial S For Sonny

Premiere All About Jazz Podcast features Sonny Rollins - Dial S For Sonny

Allaboutjazz.com, the web's largest Jazz site, joins the Podcast revolution with the debut of the “All About Jazz Podcast," featuring saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins. Produced and hosted by Bret Primack, the AAJ Podcast showcases artists and their new CDs, with both interviews and audloclips included. Upcoming AAJ Podcasts include programs with Denny Zeitlin, Hendrik Meurkens and ...

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Article: Jazz and the Net

Sonny Rollins is My Rabbi

Read "Sonny Rollins is My Rabbi" reviewed by Bret Primack

by Bret Primack

I remember, quite well, the first time I met Sonny Rollins. It was in the fall of 1978, when I was writing for Down Beat. For a cover story, I traveled to his upstate New York home for an interview with the Saxophone Colossus. Over the years, I'd heard his music, both on recordings, ...

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Article: Live Review

Sonny Rollins: Tanglewood 2005

Read "Sonny Rollins: Tanglewood 2005" reviewed by Scott H. Thompson

by Scott H. Thompson

It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday morning in New England, while down South, New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz, lay in ruin. Devastated by Hurricane Katrina. I made my way to a 9:15am church service, and then headed out onto the highway for another church service. The church of Sonny Rollins. Driving straight north ...

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Rollins: Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert

Read "Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert" reviewed by Paul Olson

by Paul Olson

No living tenor player has added more to the jazz vocabulary than Sonny Rollins, and anyone compiling even a conservative list of essential Rollins recordings is going to have great trouble keeping it down in single digits. But as a concert performer, Rollins can be among the most frustrating of artists. Part of that is due ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Sonny Rollins: Worktime & The Sound of Sonny

Read "Sonny Rollins: Worktime & The Sound of Sonny" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz

by Javier AQ Ortiz

The following recordings represent stations in the mid-50s...-as vital a period in Sonny Rollins' career as any as much of his reputation was built upon this period. The earliest of the two finds Rollins wondering whether he could perform after kicking his heroin habit, signalling his return to the jazz scene after rehab; the latter has ...


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