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	Biography - Sonny Rollins (Bio 276) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sonny Rollins (born: Theodore Walter Rollins) is one of the true masters of post-bop jazz.
		Rollins first recorded in 1949 and, nearly 50 years later, as the most formidable of all jazz improvisers, he remains a living inspiration to musicians and listeners worldwide.
		Rollins spent a good part of the next three years practicing on the Williamsburg Bridge and when he returned in 1962, his music was marked by intensified creativity.
	musicbase.h1.ru /PPB/ppb2/Bio_276.htm (1984 words)

	Sonny Rollins: The Bridge ---Ink Blot Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		After Sonny Rollins took a two-year hiatus from performing and recording, critics were salivating upon the release of this record, assuming that Rollins would emerge with the "new sound." Many, in fact, were disappointed by The Bridge at the time, not so much because of what it was, but because of what it wasn't.
		Rollins is liberated by the absence of the piano, recalling his landmark Village Vanguard trios.
		Rollins offers seductive slurs and fragile phrases on "Where Are You" and he jubilantly glides through "Without a Song." Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child" receives a relaxed and plaintive treatment.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/rollins.htm (488 words)

	Sonny Rollins Biography
		Rollins was the first of his peers to reach a level where he could join some the older bop players and beginning in the late 1940s Rollins recorded and performed with Parker, Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis among others.
		Rollins output for Blue Note is notable because it was during this period that he became widely regarded as the most talented and innovative tenor saxophonist in jazz.
		Rollins remembers that he took his leave of absence from the scene because "I was getting very famous at the time and I felt I needed to brush up on various aspects of my craft.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/Delta/4733/bio.html (2102 words)

	Sonny Rollins' Riverside Box
		Sonny Rollins' recording career began when he was still in his teens.
		Rollins appeared on four tracks of the album, with perhaps his most notable contribution being on the title track, with its demanding 22 bar tenor line.
		Rollins and Kenny Dorham were gigging with Max Roach at the time and Lincoln was on her way to becoming Mrs.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-june00/sonny_rollins.html (1652 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Sony Rollins
		Sonny Rollins began his musical studies on piano, studied alto saxophone from about the age of 11, and then took up the tenor saxophone in 1946.
		During these years, as Rollins continued to struggle with changing personnel and instrumentation, he focused increasingly on unaccompanied playing, and by the end of the decade he had become famous for his extended, "stream-of-consciousness" extemporizations on traditional tunes and on his own calypso songs.
		Rollins has continued to experiment, recording on soprano saxophone in 1972 and on lyricon in 1979.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_rollins_sonny.htm (676 words)

	Sonny Rollins biography
		Theodore "Sonny" Rollins was born in 1930 in New York City.
		After Brown died in '56, Rollins creativity began to erupt, as he released a series of classic albums: Saxophone Colossus, Way Out West, A Night at the Village Vanguard, and Tenor Madness (whose title track is a duet with John Coltrane).
		In the late Fifties, Coltrane had usurped Rollins as the most admired saxophonist, and as he and Ornette Coleman were bringing radical approaches to improvisation, Rollins took another sabbatical for over 2 years, where it was reported that he practiced in the middle of the Williamsburg bride in New York City.
	airjudden.tripod.com /jazz/sonnyrollins.html (412 words)

	NPR's Jazz Profiles: Sonny Rollins
		Sonny Rollins was born in New York City, in the Sugar Hill section of Harlem, on September 7, 1930.
		Rollins became part of a Harlem-based nucleus of young musicians, which included drummer Art Taylor and pianist Kenny Drew, who were regularly called on to perform and record with larger lights.
		Rollins continues to perform and record, but he's increasingly drawn to the solitude found on his upstate New York farm, which he shares with his wife and manager, Lucille.
	www.npr.org /programs/jazzprofiles/archive/rollins.html (563 words)

	Sonny Rollins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in New York City) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
		Walter Theodore Rollins was born in Harlem, New York on September 7, 1930, of parents native to the Virgin Islands.
		Sonny was also the subject of a mid-’80s documentary by Robert Mugge entitled Saxophone Colossus; part of its soundtrack is available as G-Man.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Rollins (1340 words)

	E.J.N. - SONNY ROLLINS
		Uncompromising and constantly searching, Rollins chooses to “live lightly on the planet.” At the core of his humble lifestyle is a demanding practice regime, essential because of the tremendous demands he places on himself.
		By the early fifties, Rollins was recognized as one of the most promising, spontaneous, and creative tenor players on the jazz scene, sought after by Miles, and the MJQ.
		Sonny was finally officially recognized by the prestigious Downbeat magazines Critics’ Poll as New Star of the Tenor Saxophone in 1957.
	www.ejn.it /mus/rollins.htm (1061 words)

	Sonny Rollins
		Sonny Rollins starts out slow and easy with sudden melodic arpeggios and crescendos, carefully placed in great time spaces.
		Sonny Rollins melodic development is superior and second to none.
		Sonny Rollins and Clifton Anderson really show their chops with close interactive and melodic playing on this last tune.
	www.bboogie.com /Sonny_Rollins.htm (945 words)

	Sonny Rollins :Freedom Suite Revisited
		In 1956 Sonny Rollins was one of the best-known tenor saxophonists in jazz, having recorded and released two wonderful and classic jazz albums, Saxophone Colossus and Tenor Madness, the latter being a tenor standoff with John Coltrane.
		Rollins’ statement that “America is deeply rooted in Negro culture” was, in 1958, a bold statement, to say the least.
		What Rollins was saying, that African Americans represented the essence of American culture but were oppressed by a group (white Europeans) that had essentially seized that culture for their own purposes, was pretty radical.
	www.jazzitude.com /freedom_suite.htm (1471 words)

	Sonny Rollins Tickets - Cheap Sonny Rollins Concert Shows Tickets At Onlineseats
		Sonny Rollins was one of the most talented tenor saxophonists of his time and rubbed shoulders with the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and John Coltrane in the all-time greats.
		Sonny Rollins was born as Theodore Walter Rollins in Harlem on September 9, 1930.
		Rollins was the first of his peers to attain a level where he could play with older bop players, eventually Rollins recorded and performed with Parker, Powell, Thelonious Monk, and Miles Davis amongst others.
	www.onlineseats.com /sonny-rollins-tickets/index.asp (1003 words)

	Amazon.ca: Thelonious Monk And Sonny Roll: Music: Thelonious Monk With Sonny Rollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Thelonious Monk created some of his most innovative music during the period in the early '50s when he recorded for Prestige, and Sonny Rollins was in the forefront of the few musicians who could respond to Monk's challenging compositions and sharp-angled, dissonant comping.
		Rollins is in fine form on the tracks he is invloved with, and Monk is Monk, which as always is satisfying.
		Rollins' solos on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "I Want To Be Happy" show that he is a great tenor saxophonist, and this album is testimony to his skill.
	www.amazon.ca /Thelonious-Monk-Sonny-Roll-Rollins/dp/B000000Y3Q (1157 words)

	Jazz \| JazzTimes Magazine > Columns and Features > Web Exclusive > Sonny Rollins Tribute
		Sonny Rollins, with his big and robust sounds and flowing ideas, remains one of the greatest improvisers that I have ever heard in my life.
		Sonny has all the skills that I believe are necessary to be classed as a truly great musician, Great sound, solid technique, effortless swing and melodic and harmonic clarity in his improvisations.
		Sonny's name was mentioned so many times while working with them and every time it came up, it was always with this very funny imitation of his voice.
	www.jazztimes.com /columns_and_features/web_exclusive/sonny_rollins_tribute (3389 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bridge: Music: Sonny Rollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rollins is on fire throughout-- playing mostly standards (with only two originals), it sounds as if he was itching to get in the studio again, his playing is powerful, focused ("Without a Song"), lyrical (one of the definitive readings of "God Bless the Child") and emotive ("Where Are You?").
		Sonny and John Coltrane and Paul Desmond and Stan Getz and Coleman Hawkins were the sax giants of this era, along with several others.
		Sonny is widly regarded as the greatest improviser on any instrument in any style of all time, a title granted to him by Jazziz, Down Beat, and Jazz Times almost unanimously in the 90s, and this album is perhaps the greatest evidence of so.
	www.amazon.com /Bridge-Sonny-Rollins/dp/B00009PJRN (2078 words)

	Sonny Rollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rollins" assured version of Charlie Parker on tenor was embraced by the top jazz artists: in 1949 he played with Art Blakey, in 1950 with Tadd Dameron, in 1951 with Miles Davis and in 1953 with Thelonious Monk.
		Rollins found it difficult to deal with the possibilities opened up by the assaults on form of the avant garde.
		Sonny Rollins: The Journey Of A Jazzman, Charles Clement Blancq.
	musicstore.mymmode.com /artist.do?artistID=5957356 (847 words)

	NEA Jazz Masters SonnyRollins
		Rollins first recording was made alongside the bop singer Babs Gonzales in 1949.
		By 1959 Rollins had grown impatient with the vagaries of the jazz scene and took a hiatus.
		Sonny Rollins’ recordings have continued to reflect his interest in Caribbean rhythms, particularly the calypso.
	www.iaje.org /bio.asp?ArtistID=58 (650 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| A Colossus Nears the End of the Road: Sonny Rollins at 75
		Over the course of his career, Rollins has seen jazz music's position in society shift from a place as the hippest of hip to its current status, where its most popular manifestation comes in the form of sexy piano players and any claims to "cool" status are framed by the soft focus of hindsight.
		The changes that Rollins has witnessed in the way jazz is viewed have caused him to reassess his attitude toward the music he's given his life to.
		Rollins was not alone in his belief that the music he loved had the potential to change the world.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/rollins-sonny-050826.shtml (2307 words)

	Sonny Rollins: The Hard Bop Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Sonny Rollins first learned piano, studied alto saxophone from about the age of 11, and took up the tenor in 1946.
		Except for a six-year retirement from 1966 to 1972, Rollins has remained active, touring the USA, Europe, and Japan, and recording a fusion of bop and soul music with his quintet.
		Rollins has adhered to the bop practice of varying and elaborating a large repertory of fomulas and, in a wide range of material, shows a rhythmic imagination, harmonic subtlety, and freedom of design that have perhaps been surpassed only by Charlie Parker.
	members.tripod.com /~hardbop/rollins.html (347 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Gary Giddins conversation on Sonny Rollins
		Sonny is not a depressing player, he is not a despairing player, which is something you can say often of Coltrane, that he has devils in him that he tried to exorcise through his music.
		Rollins has his own sound, he has his own way of dealing with improvisation, which is chiefly melodic and thematic, using the actual material at hand.
		A lot of jazz musicians, especially in the generation that Sonny came up with, in the fifties, when there were a lot of drugs and the record labels were like plantations, where musicians would just go in there to make a record for a nice piece of change, never really expecting a royalty.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /mainHTML.cfm?page=giddins-rollins.html (6379 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Sonny Rollins
		Along with John Coltrane, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was the big gun to arrive on the jazz scene in the 1950s.
		Indeed, before Coltrane hit, Rollins was considered heir apparent to the tenor throne previously occupied by the likes of Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins.
		Conjecture aside, there appears to be little doubt that in 1959, when Rollins took another sabbatical, the move was in part a response to what Coltrane was doing.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.16.95/Rollins-9546.html (601 words)

	Sonny Rollins
		Zum Schluss meint Sonny Rollins, er trete nur noch "in würdiger Umgebung" auf.
		Sonny Rollins ist der letzte Überlebende aus dem Tenorsaxophon-Pantheon der 50er und 60er Jahre, zu dem neben ihm Musiker wie Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ben Webster oder John Coltrane gehören.
		Rollins erklärt auf der CD in einem Kurzinterview, dass er bewusst auf ein Klavier verzichte, da dies ihn manchmal im Ausdruck seiner Ideen hindere, womit er nichts gegen Pianisten gesagt haben wollte.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo8/Rollins.htm (1112 words)

	Sonny Rollins News
		Until recently, Sonny Rollins practiced his tenor saxophone in a cottage studio a short, loping distance from his house here, on the rustic property he and his wife, Lucille, bought nearly 35 years ago.
		Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment in New York on Greenwich and Duane streets, six blocks from the World Trade Center, and he was in the apartment, up on the 40th floor, when the planes hit.
		THERE'S NOT MUCH controversy in saying Sonny Rollins is the greatest living jazz musician, a peerless improviser with a boundless imagination.
	www.topix.net /who/sonny-rollins (611 words)

	Sonny Rollins - Biography - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Although his playing was a bit more eccentric than previously, Rollins was a major force until, in 1968, he again decided to retire.
		Upon his return in 1971, Sonny Rollins was more open to the influence of R&B rhythms and pop music, and his recordings since then have not always been essential (often using sidemen not up to his level) but Rollins remains a very vital soloist.
		His skill at turning unlikely material into jazz, his unaccompanied flights, and his rhythmic freedom and tonal distortions have kept Sonny Rollins one of the masters of jazz.
	music.aol.com /artist/sonny-rollins/7446/biography (430 words)

	Jelly review: Sonny Rollins
		Sonny Rollins may not be as green as he used to be, age-wise, but this titan tenor has just released an album as socially aware as a college activist.
		Rollins stretches out on this release’s six cuts, with nothing on it lasting anything less than six-an-a-half minutes.
		On this foundation, Rollins and trombonist Clifton Anderson skip like stones over a peaceful lake with their sharply pointed staccato notes, sounding closer to a warm tropical beach than the impending disaster the title implies.
	www.jellyroll.com /07/sonnyrollins.html (250 words)

	Sonny Rollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When 56-year-old Herbie Hancock hits his stride on The New Standard (Verve) and 65-year-old Sonny Rollins swings at peak excitement on Sonny Rollins Plus 3 (Milestone), the old-timers make you believe more in the recklessness of age than in the wisdom of youth.
		Sonny Rollins has a reputation for disliking the recording studio that's as great as his reputation for making silk-purse solos out of sow's-ears tunes like "I'm an Old Cowhand." So it should come as no revelation that Sonny Rollins Plus 3 is an uneven disc.
		The trio of pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and Foster back Rollins on five tracks, and pianist Stephen Scott, Cranshaw, and Jack DeJohnette are on two; both groups serve as background for the main attraction.
	bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/music/reviews/04-04-96/SONNY_ROLLINS.html (602 words)

	Amazon.com: Saxophone Colossus: Music: Sonny Rollins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Rollins is equally at home with the lilting Caribbean air of "St. Thomas," standards ("You Don't Know What Love Is"), blues ("Strode Rode," featuring a driving Tommy Flannagan solo), and a smoldering version of Brecht-Weill's "Moritat" (better known as "Mac the Knife").
		Rollins' playing throughout the album is extraordinary, especially on the last number, "Blue 7", a strange blues improvisation which features one of Max Roach's fiercest drum solos.
		Rollins and the syncopated, carribean influenced percussion and drums from Max Roach.
	www.amazon.com /Saxophone-Colossus-Sonny-Rollins/dp/B000000YG5 (1687 words)

	Sonny Rollins @ The Jazz Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He was born Theodore Walter Rollins in 1930, a child of Harlem who hung out on the near- by stoop of his idol Coleman Hawkins.
		While still in high school, Rollins caught glimpses of Charlie Parker on 52nd Street and rehearsals in the kitchen of Thelonious Monk.
		When Rollins re-emerged in Chicago at the end of 1955 as a member of the Clifford Brown-Max Roach quintet, he was an even more authoritative presence.
	www.thejazzfiles.com /JazzRollins.html (462 words)

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