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10. Mai 2024 · Sonny Rollins "A Night At The Village Vanguard"— First Time Release Cut From the Original Master Tapes. Tone Poet 3 LP Set Is One Of The Great Jazz Reissues. In October 1957, Sonny Rollins was booked for a two month gig at New York City jazz club, The Village Vanguard.
30. Apr. 2024 · Sonny Rollins' big-hearted music speaks for itself on newly reissued 'Freedom Weaver'. In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a...
- Kevin Whitehead
Vor 6 Tagen · Sonny Rollins is a living jazz legend, a player of outsize impact and cultural influence whose biography reads like jazz lore, even as it continues to be written. Born in the jazz mecca of New York City in 1930, Rollins showed early promise.
30. Apr. 2024 · Sonny Rollins' big-hearted music speaks for itself on newly reissued 'Freedom Weaver'. In 1959, Rollins was a few years into one of the great hot streaks in jazz history when he took a three-week trip to Europe. Three hours from that tour are heard on a new Rollins-approved reissue.
- Kevin Whitehead
30. Apr. 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 rhythmic obstinacy, the noble tone of Coleman Hawkins and Dexter Gordon's swagger. But it all comes out in Rollins' own brash, self-assured voice.
14. Mai 2024 · On this day (May 24) in 1956, two titans of the tenor saxophone — Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane — came together in Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, to record “Tenor Madness,” the leadoff track for Rollins’ Prestige album of the same name.
30. Apr. 2024 · Rollins took a trio to Europe for three weeks in late winter. Three hours from that tour are heard on the new Sonny-approved reissue, "Freedom Weaver," drawing on seven gigs from five countries. The saxophonist has lung power, ideas and technique to burn in a gloriously unruly sound. (SOUNDBITE OF SONNY ROLLINS' "ST. THOMAS")
