The superbly alert and flexible drummer formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years. He was 82.

“In a little over 5 minutes, the band delivers some of the most thrilling, blowout, burn-up rock and roll,” Rollins said of the song. “Smith’s tone and attack is without peer, Asheton’s ...

Sonny Rollins did something highly unusual in modern entertainment: he ascended to the top of his field and then dropped off the radar. Vanished. Disappeared. The legend is Rollins was ...

is reissued with two other live tracks from the period During 1957 and early 1958 Sonny Rollins decided to experiment with a pared-down group, doing without a second horn and more importantly, ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONNY ROLLINS SONG, "I'VE TOLD EV'RY LITTLE STAR") WHITEHEAD: This 1959 music poses an old question with no simple answer - why was this grandmaster on fire so dissatisfied he quit ...

(SOUNDBITE OF SONNY ROLLINS SONG, "I'VE TOLD EV'RY LITTLE STAR") WHITEHEAD: This 1959 music poses an old question with no simple answer - why was this grandmaster on fire so dissatisfied he quit ...

“I was getting a lot of publicity for my work at that time, but I wasn’t satisfying my own requirements for what I wanted to do musically,” Sonny Rollins told Guardian jazz critic John ...

Lovin’ Spoonful legend John Sebastian even joins in the fun on guitar on one song. Happily, Terrible on this new first ... outside his regular comfort zone was legendary Saxophonist Sonny Rollins who ...

Sonny Rollins is an absolute titan of jazz and tenor saxophone ... The landscape of the genre would have been very different without Rollins’s road to Damascus moment following his release from Rikers ...

Books in Review Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins By ... I’d just play songs and blow in a stream-of-consciousness way.” When Rollins did leave his closet, he would ...

While touring America as part of Max Roach’s group in early 1957, New York saxophonist Sonny ... Rollins seems alive to the possibilities of this freeing format. He later explained that without ...