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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