Search results for "Sonny Rollins"

Sonny Rollins: Grand Street (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 06, 08

Sonny Rollins had been recording steadily for 9½ years, but this was his first big band date. Of course, Sonny always...

Sonny Rollins: Decision (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

“Decision” demonstrates a bit of tenor giant Sonny Rollins’s acclaimed ability to use thematic variation in the const...

Sonny Rollins: I've Told Ev'ry Little Star (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 16, 08

Shortly after this West Coast session, Sonny Rollins returned to New York and withdrew from the jazz scene for close ...

Sonny Rollins: Skylark (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music January 28, 08

Sonny begins unaccompanied sounding like he's introducing a calypso, but then subtly moves into a slow-tempoed sweet ...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Lover Man (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Sonny Rollins’ avant-garde period – culminating in East Broadway Rundown – was in full bloom when the 33-year-old rec...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins (with Paul Bley): All the Things You Are (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music June 12, 09

The piano solo on this song was my first introduction to Paul Bley's music. When I heard it for the first time (7 ye...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: AARON PARKS SELECTS 12 ESSENTIAL PAUL BLEY TRACKS

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Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: All The Things You Are (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music April 20, 09

This track comes from the fabled Sonny Meets Hawk! sessions from July, 1963 with Rollins and Coleman Hawkins, and exh...

This track review is included in: DESERT ISLAND DOZENS: FRANK KIMBROUGH

Not many jazz musicians have had a stronger revitalizing and sustaining impact on the everyday NYC jazz scene over ...

Sonny Rollins & Coleman Hawkins: Just Friends (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music June 08, 08

These two tenor legends may have been "just friends," but there is still an aggressive edge to this encounter. Rolli...

Sonny Rollins: It Could Happen to You (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music December 07, 07

It could happen. A great jazzman at the height of his powers might inexplicably retire to his Brooklyn apartment, eme...

Steve Kuhn: Like Sonny (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music July 22, 09

In one of those rare, once-in-a-lifetime convergences, pianist Steve Kuhn got a call to play with John Coltrane for a...

Dizzy Gillespie: The Eternal Triangle (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music January 29, 09

The 2006 recording by James Moody and Hank Jones of Sonny Stitt's "[The] Eternal Triangle" brings to mind this 1957 v...

Sonny Rollins: Tenor Madness (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

This medium tempo, B-flat blues is the title track of one of Sonny Rollins's many fine mid-1950s albums. It's also—un...

The Rolling Stones (with Sonny Rollins): Waiting On A Friend (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music February 05, 09

"Waiting On A Friend" was a meeting of an all-time top-three rock 'n' roll band and an all-time top-three tenor saxop...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WHEN JAZZ CATS MEET ROCKERS

Jazz musicians performing sidemen roles on recording dates of non-jazz performances is a practice nearly as old as ja...

Sonny Rollins: Disco Monk (Rating: 69/100) posted in Music November 05, 07

Sonny Rollins has always delighted in the mundane as a means of challenging himself. Lurking behind his penchant for ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TURKEYS FOR THANKSGIVING

Jazz.com visitors will notice that most of our reviews are favorable. That's because (a) we love jazz and (b) in bu...

Sonny Rollins: More Than You Know (Live) (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 22, 08

Tenorist Sonny Rollins is the closest thing the jazz world has to a force of nature. And like tornadoes and earthqua...

Sonny Rollins: Pent-Up House (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 16, 09

Sonny Rollins' "Pent Up House" fuses both the calm simplicity of the blues and the frantic feeling of bebop. Rollins...

Sonny Rollins: Where Are You? (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music November 20, 07

In 1962, returning from one of his periodic sabbaticals, Sonny Rollins met a mixed reception. For some, jazz's increa...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE BLUE & SENTIMENTAL TENOR SAX BALLADS

    Saxophone by Suzanne Cerny The tenor is the manliest saxophone and possibly the m...

Sonny Rollins: Come, Gone (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

Rollins often functioned as a musical satirist, skewering standards left and right. When he got serious, though, wat...

Sonny Rollins: Dearly Beloved (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

It’s difficult to overstate the effect that Ornette Coleman had on Sonny Rollins. The always-critical Rollins was in...

Sonny Rollins: Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 09, 08

A Night at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1 marks Sonny Rollins's first "live" recording as a leader. He used several c...

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