Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Hill Auditorium was filled Saturday evening as the University Musical Society opened its 12th ...

Aidan Levy’s much anticipated new book, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, a moving and meticulously researched 784-page biography seven years in the making, chronicles the ...

Sonny Rollins with Don Cherry and Henry Grimes at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Jan. 17, 1963. Credit: Courtesy of The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research and Inger Stjerna At the age of 92, ...

As the subject of the documentary film Saxophone Colossus, we are treated to an intimate portrait of the jazz giant Sonny Rollins at work and in performance, and it’s a captivating, enjoyable look ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days, and for ...

These two DVDs capture jazz tenor titan Sonny Rollins at two stages in his later career. "In Vienne" documents a June 29, 2006 performance at Jazz a Vienne, the long-running French jazz festival held ...

Sonny Rollins' life and career is the stuff of legend, not the least of which intervals include the period he 'retired' to perfect his craft with practice sessions on 'The Bridge' in New York or his ...

America didn’t invent improvisation, but it seems to have held the patent for generations. Even if, as many presume these days, the nation’s democracy is imperiled, its promise of unlimited ...

It's hard to overstate Rollins' contribution to jazz. As the groundbreaking saxophonist celebrates his 80th birthday, he can look back on a... Sonny Rollins: The Saxophone Colossus Turns 80 Sonny ...

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was beginning an awe inspiring burst of creativity when this album was recorded on June 22, 1956 in the company of Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max ...