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Sonny Rollins: Tenor Titan
by David Rickert
Despite his popularity as a performer, an unsatisfied Sonny Rollins took a three year hiatus from performing and recording to hone his technique. The image of him practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge during this period is one of jazz's enduring reference points. Once he returned in 1962, Rollins signed with RCA and released a series of ...
Sonny Rollins: With the Modern Jazz Quartet
by David Rickert
First off, don't be misled by the title--Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet only appear together on four of the thirteen selections. This CD is in fact comprised of three separate sessions from 1951- 53: one track recorded at the tail end of a Miles Davis session, eight done by Rollins' working quartet, and four featuring ...
Illumination
by AAJ Staff
It comes as a quiet blink in the dark, a sudden wash of color, or sheer blinding intensity. The best thing is, it happens without any warning. That's the sublime power of music created in the moment, always teetering on the edge of unpredictability. Once you've make that leap enough times, you'll find yourself addicted.
Freedom Suite Revisited
by Marshall Bowden
In 1956 Sonny Rollins was one of the best-known tenor saxophonists in jazz, having recorded and released two wonderful and classic jazz albums, Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness, the latter being a tenor standoff with John Coltrane. In the following two years, freed from his Prestige Records contract, Rollins set about making some great records that ...
Sonny Rollins: Way Out West
by C. Michael Bailey
Way Out West was Sonny Rollins’ first tenor saxophone-bass-drums recording. He would follow this with the trio recordings A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1999) and Freedom Suite (Riverside/OJC, 1991). Unlike the piano-less quartets of Gerry Mulligan, Rollins did not have a counterpoint foil, as did Mulligan did in Chet Baker and later Bob ...
Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness
by C. Michael Bailey
Classical mythology is not the only place where the gods converse. Two of them readily communicate, using the universal language of the blues, for twelve-plus minutes on “Tenor Madness." Touted as the only recorded duet between the tenor titans of the ‘50s and ‘60s, the selection “Tenor Madness" represents the purity of improvisation, jazz and the ...
The Sound of Sonny
Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: The Last Time I Saw Paris, Just in Time, Toot, Toot, Tootsie, What Is There To Say?, Dearly Beloved, Every Time We Say Goodbye, Cutie, It Could Happen To You, Mangoes, Funky Hotel Blues.
Sonny Rollins + 4 (20-Bit Remastered)
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Valse Hot; Kiss and run; I Feel a Song Comin
Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins + 4 (20-Bit Remastered)
by C. Michael Bailey
The Sound of Sonny... Sonny Rollins played in the influential Clifford Brown—Max Roach Quintet from late 1955 until mid-1957, when Brown and Bud Powell’s brother, pianist Richie Powell tragically perished in an automobile accident. About halfway through his tenure with the band, Rollins took the group into the studio under his direction for a recital that ...
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