BERKELEY — Stalking the stage with his tenor saxophone and looking like Methuselah in sunglasses, Sonny Rollins plays with the high-pressure intensity of an uncapped fire hydrant. His performance ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents improvisational saxophone legend Sonny ...

On Dec. 17, 1951, Sonny Rollins entered a studio for his first session as bandleader. The tenor saxophonist, then 21 years old, had already recorded with the likes of Miles Davis. Within days, and for ...

Sonny Rollins' life and career is the stuff of legend, not the least of which intervals include the period he 'retired' to perfect his craft with practice sessions on 'The Bridge' in New York or his ...

Years before Sonny Rollins impressed anyone with his herculean saxophone skills, his peers had already pegged him as a leader. The 12-year-old Rollins didn’t seek out the distinction, but he inspired ...

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins had yet to find his identifying groove on Saxophone Colossus, released in 1956, which is notwithstanding a keynote recording in the New Yorker's career, his ...

Sonny Rollins with Don Cherry and Henry Grimes at the Stockholm Concert Hall, Jan. 17, 1963. Credit: Courtesy of The Centre for Swedish Folk Music and Jazz Research and Inger Stjerna At the age of 92, ...

Aidan Levy’s much anticipated new book, Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins, a moving and meticulously researched 784-page biography seven years in the making, chronicles the ...

“I was lucky, because he would sit down next to me for hours and we would play phrase by phrase, hundreds of times,” she says. “He would focus on details like how he articulates, like how he plays one ...

At 86 (87 on September 7), the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is the elder statesman among the survivors from jazz’s heroic age. They’re even talking about renaming the Williamsburg Bridge ...

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was beginning an awe inspiring burst of creativity when this album was recorded on June 22, 1956 in the company of Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max ...