Jack DeJohnette is the keeper of the beat Oct 4, 2009
Sonny Rollins - one of the great masters still going today - these musicians relied on trust. They could say certain things that they wanted, but you were left to come up with your own ideas to enhance and breathe life into it. (Boston Globe)
Post the First Comment Sep 30, 2009
Jazz great Sonny Rollins - Arts and Entertainment ... Jazz great Sonny Rollins ... At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, Sonny Rollins stepped on stage with a saxophone in his hands. (The Current Online, MO)
Jazz great Sonny Rollins Sep 30, 2009
At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center, Sonny Rollins stepped on stage with a saxophone in his hands. Sonny has been playing that saxophone for audiences longer than most people at the concert have been alive. (The Current Online, MO)
This day in history Sep 7, 2009
Jazz musician Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer Alfa Anderson (Chic) is 63. (Boston Globe)
Celebrity birthdays for Sept. 6-12 Sep 3, 2009
Sept. 7: Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer Alfa Anderson of Chic is 63. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The First Black Prez Aug 27, 2009
Young introduced a dynamic new approach to the saxophone; his playing had a leaner tone and a cooler approach, and it influenced countless other greats who have played the instrument including Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray and Stan Getz. But his influence didnt stop with instrumentalists. (Slate)
127th AES Convention Posts Awards Presentations Aug 14, 2009
Among the recipients of the Board of Governors Fellowship Awards is engineer Rudolph 'Rudy' Van Gelder, recognized for five decades of exceptional recordings of such legendary jazz artists as Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. "On the other end of the time line," Woszczyk said, "is a Board of Governors Award to the AES Web Development Group. Team leader Nick Zacharov; webmaster Steve Johnson; graphic designer Josh Tidsbury and copywriters Peter Cook and Michael Fleming will be... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Cirque du Soleil returning to the Bay Area Aug 8, 2009
Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins will perform at Zellerbach Hall on May 13 at 8 p.m.. Also, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra - instead of the previously announced China Philharmonic Orchestra - will make its Cal Performance debut featuring rising-star pianist Yuja Wang. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
The Best Year in Jazz Ever Jul 17, 2009
In the years before or just after 1959, other jazz legendsDuke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins and Art Blakeyalso released iconic recordings. After , Davis went on to begin work on , probably his second-most beloved recording. (Slate)
PICK OF THE WEEK: Assembly of Dust, plus the playlist Jun 24, 2009
My Little Brown Book Sonny Rollins. The sax master blows pure soul on this track from 1982's Reel Life, just released on CD for the first time. (USA Today -- Life)
Sonny Rollins, Maria Schneider win at jazz awards Jun 18, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) ---- Jazz legend Sonny Rollins and big-band leader Maria Schneider each were triple winners at the Jazz Awards, but it was 90-year-old pianist Hank Jones who struck the most sentimental chord. Rollins, 78, collected awards for musician of the year and top tenor saxophonist on Tuesday night. (North County Times)
Seniors get back to the beat May 16, 2009
Guitar masters Doc Watson, 86, and B.B. King, 84, remain powerful pickers, while jazz spell-weaver Sonny Rollins and classical pianist Andre Previn go strong in the neighborhood of 80. Perhaps more to the point of the New Horizons musicians were a group of American folk performers who were rediscovered during the folk boom of the 1950s and 1960s. (News & Observer)
Universal Reveal Details of the Second Instalment of Rolling Stones Reissues May 5, 2009
The eighties saw the band stretch the envelope further still, working with jazz great Sonny Rollins, film directors Julien Temple and Michael Lindsay-Hogg, and producers Chris Kimsey and Steve Lillywhite ... The sweet soul of Worried About You, Tops and the sublime Waiting On A Friend, featuring jazz great Sonny Rollins on saxophone, in particular show what a fine singer Jagger is. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
As a jazz vocalist, Kendra Shank is a free spirit May 2, 2009
"Kendra has a great overall concept," says Soskin, a well-traveled veteran whose credits include a 14-year association with Sonny Rollins. "She really affects listeners. They know she's got something that sets her apart, and it's not about scat singing. She allows the musicians a lot of freedom to interpret the music. She likes to take a lot of chances and risks and I love that.". (Boston Globe)
U. to bestow prestigious honor to five at graduation Apr 15, 2009
In addition to Ecko, Alfred C. Koeppe, Faith Ringgold, Sonny Rollins and Philip G. Zimbardo will receive honorary degrees from the University ... Sonny Rollins Rollins will receive a doctor of fine arts degree, as a saxophonist and composer who recorded with Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet. (The Daily Targum, NJ)
UNC arts series takes look at budget Mar 25, 2009
Highlighting the 2009-10 season are a trio of musical legends: jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins, Indian sitarist Ravi Shankar and Brazilian singer-songwriter Gilberto Gil. All three are both popular and artistically successful, and they join a varied schedule that includes dancers, musicians and artists from around the world. (Triangle Business Journal)
Marsalis combines passions for jazz, poetry on CD Mar 25, 2009
The musical seed for the album was planted when Sean Jones, Marsalis' fellow trumpeter in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, turned him on to drummer Max Roach's 1957 album "Jazz In 3/4 Time." It's an album of jazz tunes in waltz time, including tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' "Valse Hot.". The trumpeter's thoughts turned to the courtship ritual associated with the waltz -- and that resulted in what turned out to be the first tune for the album "Girls!". (Erie Times-News, PA)
Remembering the victims of Flight 3407 Feb 15, 2009
"I listened to jazz records and mentally transcribed them. Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane," he told City Newspaper, a Rochester, N.Y., weekly in 2006. In addition to Mangione, Niewood backed artists as diverse as Peggy Lee, Simon and Garfunkel, Judy Collins, Frank Sinatra and Sinead O'Connor, among others. (MSNBC)
