• 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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    Big Brass (Sonny Rollins Brass/Sonny Rollins Trio), Rollins made one more studio album in 1958, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders, before taking...
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    This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins. With Miles Davis Miles Davis and Horns (Prestige, 1951) Dig...
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  • The Bridge is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, recorded in 1962. It was Rollins' first release following a three-year sabbatical and...
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  • "roaring version" of the song is included on Sonny Rollins' 1958 album Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders. Jeremy Wilson: I've Found a New Baby overview...
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  • Leroy Vinnegar (category Contemporary Records artists)
    With Randy Porter Modern Reflections With Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (Contemporary, 1958) With Shorty Rogers Martians Come...
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  • Me (1957). Barry Manilow - Night Songs (2014). Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (1958) Wallace Roney – Obsession (1990) Artie...
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  • Newk's Time (category Sonny Rollins albums)
    jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins recorded on September 22, 1957 and released on Blue Note in 1959—his third album for the label. The album was recorded...
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    Moon Wish You Were Here The Wall Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders The Police Ghost in the Machine Synchronicity R.E.M. Murmur Reckoning...
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    Barney Kessel (category Contemporary Records artists)
    Brothers, Back to Back (Philles, 1965) Sonny Rollins, Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (Contemporary, 1958) Evie Sands, Any Way That You Want Me...
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    Hampton Hawes (category Contemporary Records artists)
    Sonny Criss, and Shorty Rogers. From 1948 to 1952, he was recorded live on several occasions at Los Angeles-area jazz clubs including The Haig, The Lighthouse...
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    Contemporary sessions were recorded "dry" (without electronic echo added or in a reverberant room). Sometimes, such as in the case of Sonny Rollins'...
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  • 1955 With Sonny Rollins Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957) Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (Contemporary, 1958) With Pete Rugolo Introducing Pete...
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  • mimicked the sleeve for his 1984 album Body and Soul. "Why Don't I?" (Sonny Rollins) – 5:44 "Wail March" (Rollins) – 6:11 "Misterioso" (Thelonious Monk, Denzil...
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  • and a pack of Chesterfield King cigarettes. Visible on the table with the record player is the cover of the 1958 jazz album Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary...
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  • Sonny Rollins at Music Inn/Teddy Edwards at Falcon's Lair is a live split album featuring saxophonists Sonny Rollins and Teddy Edwards, recorded for the...
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    Victor Feldman (category Contemporary Records artists)
    Rogers and Dolly Parton Once Upon a Christmas (RCA Records, 1984) With Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders (Contemporary, 1958) With...
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  • use of the electric piano for many of the performances. All compositions by Hampton Hawes except as indication "Playin' in the Yard" (Sonny Rollins) - 10:57...
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  • Taylor, and Wilbur Ware. He also recorded sessions with Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Stanley Turrentine, and Lee Morgan. As a leader, Clark...
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  • Something Special (Hampton Hawes album) (category Contemporary Records live albums)
    (Bobby Hebb) - 9:19 "Nice Meanderings" - 8:52 "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) - 5:00 "Fly Me to the Moon" (Bart Howard) - 9:13 Hampton Hawes - piano Denny Diaz...
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  • "The Green Leaves of Summer" (Dimitri Tiomkin, Paul Francis Webster) – 6:18 "Ill Wind" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 3:54 "St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins)...
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  • tenor saxophone Harry Babasin – double bass Red Callender – double bass Sonny Criss – alto saxophone Wardell Gray – tenor saxophone Hampton Hawes – piano...
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  • off his roots in bop". "The Seance" (Hampton Hawes) - 7:57 "Oleo" (Sonny Rollins) - 8:40 "Easy Street" (Alan Rankin Jones) - 5:42 "Suddenly I Thought...
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    Al Foster (section As leader)
    Foster continued to play and record acoustic jazz with Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver, and other band leaders. Foster played on Miles...
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    Lake," and "Pavane For A Dead Princess" 1986: Sonny Rollins - The Quartets featuring Jim Hall (RCA) includes The Bridge along with 7 songs 1962 and 1964...
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  • arresting or startling about the date, the relationship between the two ostensible co-leaders is a good case study in group dynamics when deference between...
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    charter member of the original cooperative the Jazz Messengers. He also recorded as a sideman with Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins, and he replaced Clifford...
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  • So Doggone Good (category Sonny Stitt albums)
    album by saxophonist Sonny Stitt recorded in 1972 and released on the Prestige label. In his review for Allmusic, Scott Yanow stated "the jam session-style...
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  • Parker) - 7:20 "Since I Fell for You" (Buddy Johnson) - 8:13 "New Sonny's Blues" (Sonny Stitt) - 7:23 "Sophisticated Lady" (Duke Ellington, Irving Mills...
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  • For Real! (Hampton Hawes album) (category Contemporary Records albums)
    released on the Contemporary label until 1961. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "pianist Hawes sounds inspired by the other players and is in top...
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