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

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 ...

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 ...