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Rollins is still touring and recording today, having outlived most of his contemporaries such as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Max Roach, and Art Blakey, all performers with whom he recorded. While Rollins was born in New York City, his parents were born in the United States Virgin Islands. Rollins received his first saxophone at age 1. Rollins started as a pianist, changed to alto saxophone, and finally switched to tenor in 1. During his high- school years, he played in a band with other future jazz legends Jackie Mc. Lean and Kenny Drew. He was first recorded in 1. Babs Gonzales – in the same year he recorded with J. Johnson and Bud Powell. In his recordings through 1. Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. In 1. 95. 0, Rollins was arrested for armed robbery and given a sentence of three years. He spent 1. 0 months in Rikers Island jail before he was released on parole. In 1. 95. 2 he was arrested for violating the terms of his parole by using heroin. Rollins was assigned to what was then the only assistance in the U. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus 7. G-Man (Sonny Rollins album) G-Man; Live album by Sonny Rollins; Released: November 1987: Recorded: August 16, 1986: Venue: Opus 40 in Saugerties, New York: Genre: Jazz: Length: 44:36: Label. In a contemporary review for The. The Definitive Sonny Rollins On Prestige, Riverside, And Contemporary Year Of Release: 2010 Label: Concord Music Genre. View Site Leaders; TV Shows. Indian Channels; Pakistani Channels; News Channels. Harris, Jools Holland, Sonny Landreth, Van Morrison, Steely.S. While there he was a volunteer for then- experimental Methadone therapy and was able to “kick” – endure an opiate withdrawal. Rollins himself initially feared sobriety would impair his musicianship, but then went on to greater success. As a saxophonist he had initially been attracted to the jump and R& B sounds of performers like Louis Jordan, but soon became drawn into the mainstream tenor saxophone tradition. Joachim Berendt has described this tradition as sitting between the two poles of the strong sonority of Coleman Hawkins and the light flexible phrasing of Lester Young, which did so much to inspire the fleet improvisation of be- bop in the 1. In 1. 95. 3 and 1. Thelonious Monk, recording Thelonius Monk and Sonny Rollins, which includes “I Want to Be Happy” and “Friday the 1. Rollins then joined the Clifford Brown–Max Roach quintet in 1. Sonny Rollins Plus 4 and Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street; Rollins also plays on half of More Study in Brown), and after Brown’s death in 1. By this time he had begun his career with Prestige Records, which released many of his best- known albums, although at the height of his career in the 1. Rollins was also recording regularly for Blue Note, Riverside and the Los Angeles label Contemporary. Saxophone Colossus. His widely acclaimed album, Saxophone Colossus, was recorded on June 2. Rudy Van Gelder’s studio in New Jersey, with Tommy Flanagan on piano, former Jazz Messengers bassist Doug Watkins and his favorite drummer Max Roach. This was Rollins’ third recording as a leader and it included his best- known composition “St. Thomas”, a Caribbean calypso based on a tune sung to him by his mother in his childhood, as well as the fast bebop number “Strode Rode”, and “Moritat” (the Kurt Weill composition also known as “Mack the Knife”). In 1. 95. 6 he also recorded Tenor Madness, using Miles Davis’ group – pianist Red Garland, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Philly Joe Jones. The title track is the only recording of Rollins with John Coltrane, who was also in Davis’ group. At the end of the year Rollins recorded a set for Blue Note with Donald Byrd on trumpet, Wynton Kelly on piano, Gene Ramey on bass, and Rollins’ long- term collaborator Max Roach on drums. This has been released as Sonny Rollins Volume One (the superstar session Volume Two recorded the following year has consistently outsold it). The piano- less trio. In 1. 95. 7 he pioneered the use of bass and drums (without piano) as accompaniment for his saxophone solos. This texture came to be known as “strolling”. Two early tenor/bass/drums trio recordings are Way Out West (Contemporary, 1. A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1. Throughout his career, Rollins used the technique, even backing bass and drum solos with sax licks. Way Out West was so named because it included songs such as “Wagon Wheels” and “I’m an Old Cowhand” and was recorded for a Californian label with Los Angeles based drummer Shelly Manne. The Village Vanguard CD consists of two sets, a matinee with bassist Donald Bailey and drummer Pete La. Roca and then the evening set with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones. By this time, Rollins had become well- known for taking relatively banal or unconventional material (such as “There’s No Business Like Show Business” on Work Time, “I’m an Old Cowhand”, and later “Sweet Leilani” on the Grammy- winning CD This Is What I Do) and turning it into a vehicle for improvisation. He also is quite well- known as a composer; a number of his tunes (including “St. Thomas”, “Doxy”, “Oleo” and “Airegin”) have become standards. Newk’s Time saw him working with a piano again, in this case Wynton Kelly but one of the most highly regarded tracks is a saxophone/drum duet (Surrey with the Fringe on Top with Philly Joe Jones). Also that year he recorded for Blue Note with a star- studded line- up of JJ Johnson on trombone, Horace Silver or Thelonious Monk on piano and drummer Art Blakey (released as Sonny Rollins Volume 2). The Freedom Suite. In 1. 95. 8 Rollins recorded another landmark piece for saxophone, bass and drums trio: The Freedom Suite. His original sleeve notes said, “How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America’s culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.”The title track is a 1. Rollins’ saxophone and the drums of Max Roach, some of it very tense. However the album was not all politics – the other side featured hard bop workouts of popular show tunes. The LP was only briefly available in its original form, before the record company repackaged it as Shadow Waltz, the title of another piece on the record. The bassist was Oscar Pettiford. Finally in 1. 95. Rollins made one more studio album before taking a three- year break from recording. This was another session for Los Angeles based Contemporary Records and saw Rollins recording an esoteric mixture of tunes including Rock- A- Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody with a West Coast group made up of pianist Hampton Hawes, guitarist Barney Kessel, bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Shelly Manne. First sabbatical. By 1. 95. 9, Rollins was frustrated with what he perceived as his own musical limitations and took the first – and most famous – of his musical sabbaticals. To spare a neighboring expectant mother the sound of his practice routine, Rollins ventured to the Williamsburg Bridge to practice. Upon his return to the jazz scene in 1. The Bridge at the start of a contract with RCA Records, recorded with a quartet featuring guitarist Jim Hall and still no piano. The rhythm section was Ben Riley on drums and bassist Bob Cranshaw. This became one of Rollins’ best- selling records. The contract with RCA lasted until 1. Rollins remain one of the most adventurous musicians around. Each album he recorded differed radically from the previous one. Rollins explored Latin rhythms on What’s New, tackled the avant- garde on Our Man in Jazz, and re- examined standards on Now’s the Time. He then provided the soundtrack to the 1. Alfie. His 1. 96. Ronnie Scott’s legendary jazz club has recently emerged on CD as Live in London, a series of releases from the Harkit label; they offer a very different picture of his playing from the studio albums of the period. When he returned in 1. R& B, pop, and funk rhythms. His bands throughout the 1. For most of this period he recorded for Milestone Records and the compilation Silver City: A Celebration of 2. Years on Milestone contains a selection from these years. The 7. 0s and 8. 0s were not all disco though and it was during this period that Rollins’ passion for unaccompanied saxophone solos came to the forefront. In 1. 98. 5 he released his Solo Album. Rollins’ most famous appearance to rock music fans was his appearance on the 1. Rolling Stones album Tattoo You, on which he plays saxophone on “Slave”, “Waiting on a Friend” and possibly “Neighbours”. In addition to the Stones album, Rollins has another link to rock fans. The Blue Note cover art to his Sonny Rollins Vol. Joe Jackson for his 1. A& M album Body and Soul, which prominently features sax and trumpet. In a May 2. 00. 5 New Yorker profile, Crouch wrote of Rollins the concert artist: Over and over, decade after decade, from the late seventies through the eighties and nineties, there he is, Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, playing somewhere in the world, some afternoon or some eight o’clock somewhere, pursuing the combination of emotion, memory, thought, and aesthetic design with a command that allows him to achieve spontaneous grandiloquence. With its brass body, its pearl- button keys, its mouthpiece, and its cane reed, the horn becomes the vessel for the epic of Rollins’ talent and the undimmed power and lore of his jazz ancestors. Rollins was presented with a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement in 2. Lucille. On September 1. Rollins, who lived several blocks away, heard the World Trade Center collapse, and was forced to evacuate his apartment, with only his saxophone in hand. Although he was shaken, he traveled to Boston five days later to play a concert at the Berklee School of Music. The live recording of that performance was released on CD in 2. Without a Song: The 9/1. Concert”, which won the 2. Grammy for Jazz Instrumental Solo for Sonny’s solo on the song “Why Was I Born?”. He won an earlier Grammy for the CD “This Is What I Do”. In 2. 00. 6, Rollins went on to complete a Down Beat Readers Poll triple win for: “Jazzman of the Year”, “#1 Tenor Sax Player”, and “Recording of the Year” for the CD “Without a Song” (The 9/1.
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