29th December 2011 Cat: Sonny Rollins with No Comments »

Growing up in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem in the 1930s and '40s, Sonny Rollins didn't envision getting out and seeing the world. but when he eventually became the “Saxophone Colossus,” playing with the likes of

Sonny Rollins remembers the weather. Sunshine. He remembers the band, too. Erskine Hawkins and Dud Bascomb each on trumpet, Paul Bascomb and Julian Dash both bl.

Last night President Obama conferred the Kennedy Award on Sonny Rollins, the most revered jazz musician on the planet. By Ivan Hewett “I'll never reach perfection – I realise that,” declared the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins in a recent

Tavis Smiley” 11 pm Tuesday, KOCE: Jazz artist Sonny Rollins. Photo: David Archuleta on "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir." Credit: Int.

“Tavis Smiley” 11 pm Tuesday, KOCE: Jazz artist Sonny Rollins. Photo: David Archuleta on "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir." Credit: Intellectual Reserve “Dudu Fisher: In Concert From Israel” 2:30 pm, Thursday KCET: Singer Dudu Fisher


Related Post :
Leave a Comment for Sonny Rollins and Neil Diamond Honored By The Kennedy Center