• Rollins Plays for Bird is a 1957 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the Prestige label, featuring performances by Rollins with Kenny...
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    presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins. With Miles Davis Miles Davis and Horns (Prestige, 1951) Dig (Prestige...
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    have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called "the greatest living improviser". Due to health problems, Rollins has not performed publicly since...
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  • Sonny Boy (album) (category Sonny Rollins albums)
    along with an unissued performance from the session that produced Rollins Plays for Bird. AllMusic critic Scott Yanow states: "Tour de Force is a more logical...
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  • is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins containing his final recordings for the Prestige label. Rollins performed with Kenny Drew, George Morrow...
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    Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's...
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  • Saxophone Colossus (category Sonny Rollins albums)
    New Jersey. Rollins led a quartet on the album that included pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Doug Watkins, and drummer Max Roach. Rollins was a member...
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    (EmArcy, 1956–57) The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (Emarcy, 1958) MAX (Argo, 1958) With Sonny Rollins Rollins Plays for Bird (Prestige, 1956) Work Time (Prestige...
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  • With Joe Roland Joltin' Joe Roland (Savoy, 1955) With Sonny Rollins Rollins Plays for Bird (Prestige, 1956) Sonny Boy (Prestige, 1956 [1961]) "Reviews...
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    Max Roach (category All articles with bare URLs for citations)
    Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He also played with his daughter Maxine Roach, a Grammy nominated...
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  • Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders is a 1959 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded for the Contemporary label, featuring performances...
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  • a long-standing association with the Blue Note label, but soon recorded for other labels including Prestige and Savoy. At the end of the decade, he moved...
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  • Stitt Plays Bird is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt, recorded in 1963 and issued on Atlantic Records in 1964. As the title suggests,...
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    - James Rollins". James Rollins. Archived from the original on 2016-01-06. Retrieved 2016-01-13. "The Kill Switch: A Talk With James Rollins". The Huffington...
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  • Complete Prestige Recordings CD box sets have been released for Davis, Coltrane, Dolphy, Monk, Rollins, Gordon, and others. The Prestige 10000 Series commenced...
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    with Rollins noting 178 performances for the year, and about that many for 1985. With Dukowski gone, Ginn ceded much of the spotlight to Rollins, who...
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    Sonny Rollins; with Ray Bryant, Tommy Bryant and Charlie Persip Sonny Side Up (Verve, 1957 [rel. 1959]) Sextet featuring Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins; with...
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  • Sonny Side Up (category Sonny Rollins albums)
    pairing of Rollins and Stitt was highly inspired. More important than their common nicknames (and the punning album title), tenor saxophonists Rollins and Stitt...
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    – a.k.a. Milt Jackson (Blue Note, 1956) Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950) Moving Out (Prestige, 1954) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957) Nica's Tempo (Savoy...
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    Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three – various artists backed by the Rollins Band (2002) ("I've Had It") Decomposition – Thavius Beck (2004) ("Amongst...
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    Instructional DVD for Guitar DVD Hal Leonard ISBN 1423403304 2008: Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall: The Bridge DVD (Salt Peanuts) includes Sonny Rollins and Jim Hall...
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    is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting...
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  • Wolfe, Alan Dean Foster, Charles de Lint, Jack Dann, Jane Yolen, Henry Rollins and Iggy Pop—to interpret this Gothic fiction phenomenon. The Crow: Shattered...
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  • under the name "Father John". Robbie Clark is a 22-year-old actor who plays Jack Rollins in the 1965 biographical film Grain of Sand. During filming in Greenwich...
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    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for Black people and women...
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    Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved January 16, 2011. "Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet – Allmusic". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved...
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  • Charlie Parker, hence the title Pre-Bird. It was released on Mercury Records in September 1961. The music is scored for various sized large jazz ensembles...
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    with Jimi Hendrix and Bob Seger. He plays in a heavy blues-rock style that has inspired fledgling guitar players for more than 40 years. In an August 2006...
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    Baltimore School for the Arts in the tenth grade, where he studied acting, poetry, jazz, and ballet. He performed in Shakespeare's plays—depicting timeless...
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  • contributed covers. Nine Inch Nails rendered Joy Division's "Dead Souls", Rollins Band covered Suicide's "Ghost Rider" and Pantera performed Poison Idea's...
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