Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American retired jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important...
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article 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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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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Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins (PRLP 187) is a 1954 10 inch LP album by Miles Davis, released by Prestige Records. The four tracks on this LP, along with...
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Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins, recorded in December 1957 in New York...
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manner in which Rollins attacks five standards with a quartet.... Sonny Rollins on Impulse! feels as if it were a recording Rollins had to get out of...
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Sonny Rollins, also known as Sonny Rollins, Volume 1, is an album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins recorded on December 16, 1956 and released...
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The Standard Sonny Rollins is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last release for RCA Victor, featuring performances by Rollins with Herbie...
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Note, 1956) Bird and Diz (Verve, 1950) Moving Out (Prestige, 1954) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957) Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955) In Orbit (Riverside...
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Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet (also released as Sonny & the Stars) is a 1956 compilation album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, featuring...
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Saxophone Colossus (category Sonny Rollins albums)
Colossus is the sixth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. Perhaps Rollins's best-known album, it is often considered his breakthrough record...
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reissued on Verve Records as Sonny Rollins/Brass - Sonny Rollins/Trio. One side of the original LP featured performances by Rollins with a big band including...
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and four of the tracks had already been released as Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins (PRLP 187), with the fifth being a previously unreleased alternative...
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the last studio record Rollins made in the 1950s. Following the recording of "Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders", Rollins toured Europe in the...
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1957 album by Sonny Rollins with bassist Ray Brown and drummer Shelly Manne, neither of whom had previously played or recorded with Rollins. The music employs...
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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 Best) –...
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Sonny Rollins Plus 4 is a jazz album by Sonny Rollins, released in 1956 on Prestige Records. On this album Rollins plays with the Clifford Brown/Max Roach...
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Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk [Quartet] is a 10" LP by American jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, performed by a quartet featuring Rollins...
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of Sonny is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his first recorded for the Riverside label, featuring performances by Rollins with Sonny Clark...
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and Sonny Rollins 1958: The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (Roost) 1958: Sonny Stitt (Argo) 1958: Burnin' (Argo) 1959: The Hard Swing (Verve) 1959: Sonny Stitt...
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Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, Stanley Turrentine, and Lee Morgan. As a leader, Clark recorded albums Dial "S" for Sonny (1957, Blue Note), Sonny's Crib...
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an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, his last recorded for the Riverside label, featuring performances by Rollins with Oscar Pettiford and Max...
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Time is a 1964 album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released by RCA Victor featuring performances by Rollins with Herbie Hancock, Thad Jones, Ron Carter...
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"Airegin" is a jazz standard composed by American jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1954. Rollins chose the name "Airegin", as it is an anadrome of "Nigeria"...
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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins is a compilation album by jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and saxophonist Sonny Rollins released in 1956 by...
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Sonny Rollins + 3 is an album by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, released on the Milestone label in 1995, featuring performances by Rollins with Bob Cranshaw...
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by jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins of music composed for the 1966 British film of the same name. It features performances by Rollins, with Kenny Burrell...
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Kay produced several musicians, including Herbie Mann, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet. In the same period he married (1956–1963)...
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Billy Higgins (section With Sonny Rollins)
Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, Lee Morgan, David Murray, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, Mal Waldron, and Cedar Walton. He was one of the house drummers for...
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quintet contained Sonny Rollins on tenor saxophone, Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on double bass, and Philly Joe Jones on drums. Rollins was replaced...
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