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, ...
Sonny Rollins did something highly unusual in modern entertainment: he ascended to the top of his field and then dropped off the radar. Vanished. Disappeared. The legend is Rollins was dissatisfied ...