This CD from the Bluebird reissue series fills a lot of gaps in Sonny Rollins' discography. The 13 selections are taken from six different sessions from 1964. The personnel...
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More self-inflated drivel has been written about Sonny Rollins than any other living jazz artist. Most of the pompous little dweebs who fancy themselves arbiters of...
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Ever since Sonny Rollins signed with Milestone in the mid-1970s, critics who prefer his earlier work have complained that Rollins' sidemen are not worthy of him. For this...
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This six-CD set has all of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' recordings for RCA, including the complete contents of The Bridge, What's New, Our Man In Jazz, Sonny Meets Hawk,...
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Priceless Jazz Collection is a mid-line series GRP assembled with the intention of providing affordable introductions to several of the most popular artists on their label....
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The Complete Blue Note Records is a five-disc box set that contains everything Sonny Rollins recorded for the label between 1956 and 1957. Each disc has been previously...
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Blue Note's Jazz Profile series is designed for neophytes and beginners curious about a certain musician. Collectors and diehard fans will have everything on this...
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Tenor saxophonist Rollins has maintained a high level of consistency in his latter-day recordings for Milestone. If listeners can't expect the 67-year-old jazzman to...
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Rollins' 20th album for Fantasy finds him once again addressing environmental issues through his music as he previously had on 1958's Freedom Suite. In fact, Rollins refers...
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Here Jazz Showcase focuses tightly upon the mid-'50s recordings that thrust Sonny Rollins firmly into the spotlight, gathering seven tracks from Prestige, two from...
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An average effort from the great tenor-saxophonist Sonny Rollins, No Problem also features guitarist Bobby Broom, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, electric bassist Bob...
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In 1978 a tour was set up that would feature three of the top jazz stars of Milestone Records (tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, pianist McCoy Tyner, and bassist Ron Carter)...
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Long moments of aimless noodling are balanced by stretches of awesome improvising. To get the full effect, listen to it all the way through. ~ Ron Wynn, All Music...
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Sonny Rollins' Milestone period, which resulted in 20 separate recordings from 1972-96, has been much maligned by dissatisfied jazz critics who feel the great tenor's later...
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Big Brass is an appropiate name for the large ensemble arranged and conducted by Ernie Wilkins that accompanies the huge sound of Sonny Rollins. The energy within the...
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Picking up only ten days after Fantasy's Complete Prestige Recordings box leaves off, these five discs run through one of Rollins' most fertile (some insist, the most...
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This is a truly strange (but, ultimately, pretty great) conglomeration of material: tracks one through six comprise a tenor saxophone summit meeting of sorts between bebop...
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By 1984 it was a common complaint that Sonny Rollins's live appearances were much more exciting than his studio recordings. Although none of the latter were throwaways (and...
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Around the ten-minute mark of the title track, things get very interesting indeed -- moody and spooky as Jimmy Garrison hangs on a single note, making his bass throb along...
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Sonny Rollins has an all-star backup band on this 1980 release: keyboardist George Duke, bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Al Foster and on some selections percussionist Bill...
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While this sampler will be best appreciated by Rollins neophytes, The Best of Sonny Rollins still packs it in with a bevy of quality sides from the tenor great's brief but...
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Half of this CD contains the famous session on which Sonny Rollins teamed up with his idol, the great tenor Coleman Hawkins. Actually the competitive Rollins did everything...
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The last of the classic Sonny Rollins albums prior to his unexpected three-year retirement features the great tenor with pianist Hampton Hawes, guitarist Barney Kessell...
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Like the album's workingman title implies, this is tenor sax great Sonny Rollins clocking in, jamming a bit, blowing a few solos, and letting the younger guys take the helm....
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When it comes to picking material, today's young hard boppers (both instrumentalists and singers) could learn a lot from Sonny Rollins -- a tenor titan who has always had a...
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This radio broadcast is taken from one of Sonny Rollins's final concerts before going into an unexpected three-year retirement. Joined by bassist Henry Grimes and drummer...
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Sonny Rollins compositions for the film Alfie (which benefited greatly from Oliver Nelson's arrangements) are heard on this CD as played by Rollins and a ten-piece band. The...
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Sonny Rollins's RCA recordings of 1962-64 found him really stretching out his style, listening to and learning from Ornette Coleman without losing his own musical...
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Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' last Riverside album has been reissued on this Original Jazz Classics CD. Jamming in a pianoless trio with bassist Oscar Pettiford and...
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The better-than-usual repertoire (including the calypso "Duke or Iron," "Dancing in the Dark" and the Warren & Dubin number "I'll String Along with You") makes this outing...
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This set (recorded live over a three-day period at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1978) finds the great tenor Sonny Rollins welcoming trumpeter Donald...
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This LP contains alternate versions of selections from two famous Sonny Rollins albums: Way out West and Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders. These "new" renditions...
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The soundtrack to the performance film Saxophone Colossus features long Sonny Rollins tenor solos on "G-Man" and "Don't Stop the Carnival" and a briefer one during "Kim."...
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Sonny Rollins's usual sextet (with trombonist Clifton Anderson, pianist Mark Soskin, guitarist Jerome Harris, electric bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Steve Jordan)...
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This decent effort from Sonny Rollins finds the classic tenor saxophonist at his best on "Good Morning Heartache" and "God Bless the Child" although some of his own...
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In his early prime and well-respected, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins cut this fine hard bop date as one of several late-'50s sessions for Blue Note. The record is part...
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Sonny Rollins first album after ending his six-year retirement is a particularly strong effort. The highpoint is a ten-minute version of "Skylark" that has a long...
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Sonny Rollins mostly sticks to standard ballads on this excellent CD which finds him joined by trombonist Clifton Anderson, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Bob Cranshaw,...
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The first of three studio albums that tenor-saxophonist Sonny Rollins recorded for Impulse contains the joyous calypso "Hold 'Em Joe" and four unusual versions of standards...
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For this LP-length CD reissue, tenor great Sonny Rollins plays five songs (including the unlikely "There's No Business like Show Business") in a quartet with pianist Ray...
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Originally known as The Bridge and What's New?, The Quartets feature Jim Hall, Mickey Roker and Ben Cranshaw. The odd pairing of Hall and Rollins make for a very...
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This excellent album deserves to be reissued in full on CD but some of its music remains out-of-print. Many of these songs find Sonny Rollins utilizing the Latin rhythms of...
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Sonny Rollins's 1974 appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival was warmly received. Joined by his usual band of the period (pianist Stanley Cowell, guitarist Masuo, electric...
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1957 heralded a new phase in Sonny Rollins' (tenor sax) career. He began -- what was at the time -- an almost blasphemous trend of recording for a number of different...
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A very interesting CD of material from Sonny Rollins. It reissues the complete Our Man in Jazz (three lengthy performances including a 25-minute version of "Oleo") along...
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In 1956 Sonny Rollins used the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet (of which he was a member) as his sidemen for this Prestige set. The highpoints of this particularly strong...
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"St. Thomas," "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "Mack The Knife" are played here with extraordinary potency; "Blue Seven" is masterpiece of improvisation functioning as ...
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The music on this former LP was the last of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' Prestige dates to appear on CD. Actually the release is a bit odd for it reissues four of the...
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A '91 reissue of '76 sessions with tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins playing alongside session musicians and guest stars. The roster includes keyboardist Patrice Rushen,...
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The music on this 1996 CD has been reissued many times including in the Bluebird series. Tenor-saxophonist Sonny Rollins' first recording after ending a surprising...
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This seven-CD box set lives up to its title, reissuing in chronological order all of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' recordings for Prestige. Dating mostly from 1951-1956,...
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A better purchase than Sonny Boy (OJC 348) which has four of this set's six numbers plus "The House I Live In" from an earlier date. None of the Sonny Rollins' originals...
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The timeless Way Out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the following year). Joined by bassist Ray...
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After several incredible dates for Prestige, Rollins moved over to Blue Note to cut a series of studio and live recordings; while not as groundbreaking as his earlier work,...
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One of Sonny Rollins' better recordings of the 1970s, this spirited Milestone set (reissued on CD in the Original Jazz Classics series) finds the veteran tenor adopting a...
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This CD is often magical. Sonny Rollins, one of jazz's great tenors, is heard at his peak with a pair of piano-less trios (either Wilbur Ware or Donald Bailey on bass and...
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The timeless Way out West established Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least until John Coltrane surpassed him the following year). Joined by bassist Ray...
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This CD (whose contents have since been reissued many times) is highlighted by the one meeting on records between Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, an exciting battle on...
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Blue Note has done an admirable job of collecting the mellow material of a number of classic players for its Ballads series. Sonny Rollins' entry, like the others, finds the...
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Sonny Rollins recorded many memorable sessions during 1954-1958, but Saxophone Colossus is arguably his finest all-around set. Joined by pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug...
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With cooperation from the Verve and Columbia Legacy catalogs, the Ken Burns Jazz series on CD individually spotlights the musical excellence of 22 jazz originators whose...
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This set combines selections from two different Verve albums. "Sumphin'" is taken from his sideman appearance with Dizzy Gillespie in 1957 while the four remaining tracks...
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As part of the Milestone Profiles series, tenor saxophone legend Sonny Rollins is spotlighted with material recorded between 1972 and 2000. The compilation is especially...
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