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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.

Age hasn't stopped jazz titan Sonny Rollins, who at 79 still maintains a daunting touring schedule.

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins has a reputation for performances of transcendent artistry, and he lived up to it Saturday evening at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center.

Sonny Rollins has been called the greatest living jazz improviser, and anyone who's heard the tenor saxophonist would be hard put to disagree.

After directing several impressive music documentaries, including the previously reviewed Gospel According to Al Green, Robert Mugge was looking for a new project, a film that would explore improvisation in music.

The Monterey Jazz Festival is this weekend, and even though it's hundreds of miles north, you can still feel its effects in our town.

Essential Jazz Classics Bass drum. High hat. A primal, hollow beat in triple succession.

Jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins is 79. Singer Gloria Gaynor is 60. Singer Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders is 58.

'...Rollins is still the reigning god of the tenor saxophone, one of jazz's most innovative and influential pioneers... a volcano of fierce inventiveness and raw, urgent power." Washington Post 'Nobody rivals his fluid mastery..." Boston Globe Jazz icon Sonny Rollins kicks off Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 season on Friday, September 25, 2009 at ...

Foundations Jazz Records Northeast area saxophonist and Berklee School of Music educator Dan Moretti embarks on the piano-less jazz trio route, hearkening back to the impetus set forth by Sonny Rollins ' 1957 Riverside classic, Way Out West .

All About Jazz is celebrating Sonny Rollins' birthday today! Sonny Rollins Sonny Rollins is a saxophone colossus.

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During the 1950s, the careers of trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist Sonny Rollins were ascending to their eventual legendary statuses, due to their great musical talents and in spite of their dangerous vices.

For its 30th birthday last year the Chicago Jazz Festival threw one hell of a party, opening with Sonny Rollins, closing with Ornette Coleman, and presenting commissioned work along the way from four undisputed heavyweights - pianist Vijay Iyer, trumpeter Dave Douglas, bandleader Gerald Wilson, and trombonist T.S. Galloway.

At the 2008 festival, the festival folks got the musicians together for a historic photo to celebrate this year's 30th anniversary.