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Bookmark or Share- Sonny Rollins Is at Peace. But He Regrets Trying to One-Up ...Talk Feb. 27, 2020. Sonny Rollins Is at Peace. But He Regrets Trying to One-Up Coltrane. By David Marchese. Sonny Rollins is, by any reasonable estimation, a genius. He is jazz’s greatest...
- ‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins ...Sonny Rollins plays his saxophone on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York. Photograph: New York Daily News Archive/NY Daily News/Getty Images. It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the...
- Sonny Rollins - WikipediaWalter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American former jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. [3] [4] In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader.
- Bio — Sonny RollinsWALTER THEODORE ROLLINS was born on September 7, 1930 in New York City. He grew up in Harlem not far from the Savoy Ballroom, the Apollo Theatre, and the doorstep of his idol, Coleman Hawkins. After early discovery of Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong, he started out on alto saxophone, inspired by Louis Jordan.
- Book Review: ‘The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins’ - The New York ...It is possible to imagine the jazz musician Sonny Rollins’s life as a novel, pitched between realism and surrealism in the manner of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
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