Verve’s Straight From The Vault series revisits Dizzy Gillespie’s Sonny Side Up—a 1957 hard bop classic featuring Sonny ...

Raise your hands, jazz fans, if you've been thinking about jazz legend Sonny Rollins during the last few months. After all, the great man is still with us at age 94. Reaching such an age is an ...

Sittin In: Ballad Medley- (a) I m Through With Love (b) Without A Word Of Warning (c) Sweet Lorraine (d) Love Walked In (e) September Song Sittin In: Ballad Medley- (a) On The Alamo (b) Stompin At The ...

The New York Times’ guide to the 100 most important jazz recordings states that in the late 1950s the two top tenor saxophonists were Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. “They had power, promise, ...

There was once a time when Sonny Rollins frequently battled Stan Getz for the top spot in the critics’ polls. The two are more alike than one might think; like Getz, Rollins possesses a flawless ...

Absolute Distribution, a Spanish consortium of labels, has done it again, following up last year's welcome single-disc reissue (at least outside the U.S.) of Stitt's 1970s Cobblestone sessions, ...

I bet you thought I meant Sonny Rollins. When you hear the name Sonny, it's usually synonymous with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Fortune or even Sonny Sharrock; all of them jazz heroes. But there ...