Sonny Rollins

About

Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins is an American former jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, “Doxy”, and “Airegin”, have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called “the greatest living improviser”.

Albums/Songs:

• Sonny Side Up
• Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass
• Sonny Rollins, Volume 2
• What’s New?
• Sonny Meets Hawk!
• Way Out West
• Duets
• 3 in Jazz
• Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
• The Bridge
• Dig
• Newk’s Time
• The Sound of Sonny
• Shadow Waltz
• Now’s the Time!
• Freedom Suite
• Sonny Boy
• Sonny Rollins, Volume 1
• Work Time
• Saxophone Colossus
• Sonny Rollins With the Modern Jazz Quartet
• Sonny Rollins Plus 4
• Blows for LP
• Moving Out
• Tour de Force

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