In 1948 he recorded with vocalist Babs Gonzales, then Bud Powell and Fats Navarro, and his first composition, 'Audubon,' was recorded by J.J.

At age nine he took up piano lessons but discontinued them, took up the alto saxophone in high school, and switched to tenor after high school, doing local engagements. Born Theodore Walter Rollins in New York City on September 7, 1930, he had an older brother who played violin. His fluid and harmonically innovative ideas, effortless manner, and easily identifiable and accessible sound have influenced generations of performers, but have also fueled the notion that mainstream jazz music can be widely enjoyed, recognized, and proliferated. Will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonist of them all. Sammy Figueroa, percussion (on track 3, 4, 6) Kimati Dinizulu, percussion (on track 1, 2, 5) “Patanjali,” a striking new Rollins composition, is given its debut recording. The album contains six tracks recorded between 20 in Saitama, Japan Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France and St. From his earliest masterpieces, such as Saxophone Colossus and Freedom Suite, to his Road Shows archival series of live performances for his Doxy label in the 2000s, Rollins has presented his peerless music without compromise - and to consistent international acclaim. Over the span of his storied and still-unfolding 65-year career, Sonny Rollins has established himself as one of the giants of jazz - a towering influence, a trailblazer, a powerfully creative force in the music. Meaningful bridges between past and present, they capture his essential Sonnyness while illuminating the new directions in which he is perpetually pointed. With the expert help of longtime associate Richard Corsello, his engineer at Fantasy during the 1980s, Sonny Rollins selected 6 tracks recorded between 20 in Saitama, Japan Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France and St. 3 which will be released internationally on May 5th. Some of those performances-ones “that present parts of me I want to have presented”-will be available on record to his fans on the upcoming album Road Shows, Vol.

The best thing about performing for him, by far, is seeing how happy his playing makes all the excited people who turn out to see him. And that’s not just because in those situations this iconic tenor saxophonist is unencumbered by time restraints and issues in the control booth. Sonny Rollins’s preferred element is on stage, in front of an adoring crowd, free to follow his every impulse and dazzle with his inventions-he is fully at home there.

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