Sonny Rollins News

When Sonny Rollins plays the world's biggest concert halls, the posters outside often hail him as "the greatest living improviser". He's a whole lot more than that.

Mercury Prize-nominated pianist Zoe Rahman is performing solo concerts in three different venues as part of the Festival on the Move strand What's been happening to jazz? There's hardly a sharp-suited bopper to be seen in the line-up for the 17th London Jazz Festival, which begins on Friday.

All About Jazz is celebrating David S. Ware's birthday today! David S. Ware David S. Ware has been playing the saxophone for over 40 years.

First held in 1976, the Roma Jazz Festival has presented concerts to more than one million people since it was established and continues to go from strength to strength, attracting music lovers from across Europe.

Jazz-fusion giants unite to pay tribute to Tony Williams, one of the great jazz/fusion/rock drummers of any generation.

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY.

As the Sonny Rollins concert last month demonstrated, jazz still has cultural significance.

The system was designed for flexibility and could be easily adapted into different configurations to accommodate the specific needs of each artist and to cover a variety of audience sizes One of Europe's largest festivals for jazz, soul, and pop rock music, BW-Bank jazzopen stuttgart 2009 recently concluded after 11 days of live concerts, featuring ...

PRESTIGE RECORDS RELEASES SIDE STEPS, A 5-CD BOXED SET OF JOHN COLTRANE'S PRESTIGE RECORDINGS AS A SIDEMAN TO A HOST OF JAZZ LUMINARIES The artistic prowess of saxophonist John Coltrane was so expansive and influential - even in his own short lifetime, let alone in the decades since his death - that it's difficult to quantify or differentiate his ...

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

Matt Wilson Quartet Seattle Art Museum, 1300 First Ave., 547-9798, earshot.org . $18 . 8 p.m. Sun., Oct.

Disc Two of this collection of tenor saxophone great John Coltrane's appearances as a sideman for the Prestige label in the late 1950's begins with the famous "Tenor Madness" collaboration with another great of the tenor, Sonny Rollins.

Last year, I wrote a Take Five piece dedicated to Thelonious Monk Tribute Albums That Aren't Terrible .

The idea of the tenor battle, two saxophonists squared off in mock combat against each other, has had a long tradition in jazz, be it Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, Dexter Gordon and Wardell Grey or Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane.

"Pete Seeger and I have the same heroes and beliefs. We are in the same family. He is my brother," Rollins said in a press release.

Iwant has created the identity for this yeara TMs BBC Radio 3 London Jazz Festival.

Guitarist Bobby Broom may not have the kind of high profile that some of his Jazz contemporaries enjoy but he has the kind of rsum that would make a good many of them green with envy.

Jazz enthusiasts, history buffs and everyone in between are invited to participate in a two-fold event Oct.

It was disconcerting to watch tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins hobble onstage. Perhaps no one in the history of the music has come closer to the speed of electricity on a saxophone.

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins may have been the penultimate musician of the 1950's, reeling off classic after classic in the latter half of that decade.