Sonny Rollins

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• Sonny Rollins: Confessions of a colossus

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  He jammed with Miles and went Zen with Coltrane. As Sonny Rollins heads to the UK, he reveals the secrets of his success When Sonny Rollins plays the worlds biggest concert halls, the posters outside often hail him as "the greatest living improviser". Hes a whole lot more than that. The 79-year-old US saxophonists ...
  9 hours ago

• Sonny Rollins 2010 Calendar

  
  Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog — Authority: 433
  I ordered a copy of the official Sonny Rollins calendar as a Christmas present for a friend, the biggest Sonny Rollins fan I know. Ive attended Rollins concerts with my friend in places ranging from Austin, Texas, to Chicago. My pals also flown to Paris a couple of times to see the great saxophonist. So Im sure ...
  4 days ago

• TENOR MADNESS (Hanna, Phil, and Tom)

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  If you saw the title and assumed that this was a Sonny Rollins tribute band, get that thought right out of your head.  As much as I admire Rollins, the tenor saxophone is sufficiently well-established in jazz so that it doesn’t need the extra publicity. No, TENOR MADNESS looks like this: I’m only sorry that ...
  1 week ago

• Jazz Don’t Hurt: Taking a Stand with ‘Conscious Jazz’

  
  Popdose — Authority: 618
  Drummer Ted Sirota and his band Rebel Souls have a new record out called Seize the Time (Naim Jazz, 2009). It’s an explicitly political instrumental album, very in line with Sirota’s previous CDs, all of which have featured album titles, song titles and liner notes that make clear Sirota’s progressive ...
  1 week ago

• Sonny Rollins To Play The Tarrytown Music Hall: Benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

  
  All Your Jazz — Authority: 130
  Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm. Original Posting Performance Details Sonny Rollins ’s performance in ...
  2 weeks ago

• FINEST FIG JAM

  
  Jazz Lives — Authority: 132
  Some history might be needed here.  ”A fig,” ”a Moldy Fig,” even “a Mouldy Figge,” is now-archaic language invented during the Forties, when jazz found itself divided into warring factions called Dixieland and Bebop.  This divisiveness may have splintered the music and its audiences irrevocably.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notes from the Net: Lester Bowie reissued; Jimmy Cobbs So What band reviewed; plus news, reviews, interviews, and more

  
  St. Louis Jazz Notes — Authority: 129
  Heres the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest. Starting off, as we usually do, with a couple of ...
  2 weeks ago

• John Coltrane: Side Steps

  
  Eat Sleep Drink Music — Authority: 433
  RIYL: Red Garland, Sonny Rollins, Gene Ammons If you’re looking for the soul-stirring genius of John Coltrane’s peak years, you’re not going to find it anywhere on Prestige’s five-disc box set, Side Steps . As an insight into Trane’s early development, however, this is exactly the place to start – and ...
  2 weeks ago

• BGs Coventry Jazz Mix - A Few Of My Favorite Things

  
  Coventry: Phish Blog and Music Blog — Authority: 473
  (Im taking the liberty of refreshing this classic post from April of 08) Hey yall, BG from Gambling Blues here. Dr. Pauly and I were talking music the other day, and, as usual, I started to get evangelical about my love of jazz. See, all you jamband lovers who dig it when Trey plinks around on that guitar of his ...
  3 weeks ago

• Bleeding Head Of Jesus Candle Says "Jazz On Sale - Buy None, Get Two Free!"

  
  Coventry: Phish Blog and Music Blog — Authority: 473
  (Im refreshing post old post as well) I keep having this recurring argument with Dr. Pauly that this Coventry joint needs some more jazz. He thinks thats great, but insists that most of yall wander over this way because youre fans of live music. So Ill compromise. How about two discs of live jazz to start out ...
  3 weeks ago

• On This Date (October 19, 1995) Don Cherry

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 484
  Don CherryNovember 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995Don Cherry was a highly regarded avant garde jazz trumpeter who is came to prominence during in the late ’50s while playing with Ornette Coleman.  His resume, both in the studio and on record, includes a who’s who of the greatest jazz musicians of the ’60s and ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Jazz Baroness: Trailer

  
  Tvbot.se — Authority: 164
  Contemporary filmmaker Hannah Rothschild tries to uncover the real story behind her great aunt’s sudden disappearance. In 1951 the beautiful married mother of five left home and went to New York in search of the man who wrote ‘Round Midnight. Read the original post: The Jazz Baroness: Trailer
  4 weeks ago

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