Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment ... Webster to Charlie Parker to John Coltrane -- Rollins was in a class by himself. Now, when virtually no contemporary of his stature is still active ...

(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 ...

Sonny returns for a final aloha. No thrill-ride here, no cadenza, just laid-back perfection. Rollins liked to play (as the former Times critic Ben Ratliff would describe it) in a spirit of ...

“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 ... no reason it can’t happen now. Rollins ...

It’s hard to question the choice of any of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Reissue series repressing, and there are clearly no better-sounding jazz reissues out there. Sonny Rollins’ Volume 1 is another ...

Sonny Rollins recorded Way Out West as a trio, introducing a format that has become so commonplace it can be hard to hear how revolutionary it was in the 1950s. Rollins’ combo with no piano or ...