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Sonny Rollins
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.5079
Sonny Rollins Album Rankings
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Sonny Rollins recorded many memorable sessions during 1954-1958, butSaxophone Colossusis arguably his finest all-around set.
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The timelessWay out Westestablished Sonny Rollins as jazz's top tenor saxophonist (at least untilJohn Coltranesurpassed him the following year).
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3
Around the ten-minute mark of the title track, things get very interesting indeed -- moody and spooky asJimmy Garrisonhangs on a single note, making his bass throb along whileElvin Joneswidens the spa
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One of two incendiary live dates from Vanguard in the late 50s. The pianoless trio steps forth and claims its fame.
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5
An excellent follow to a legendary album.
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6
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' last Riverside album has been reissued on this Original Jazz Classics CD.
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This seven-CD box set lives up to its title, reissuing in chronological order all of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' recordings for Prestige.
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8
The Complete Blue Note Recordsis a five-disc box set that contains everything Sonny Rollins recorded for the label between 1956 and 1957.
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10
The 1966 movieAlfieboasted Burt Bacharach and Sonny Rollins, a songwriting and a tenor-sax god, respectively.
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11
This CD (whose contents have since been reissued many times) is highlighted by the one meeting on records between Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, an exciting battle on "Tenor Madness.
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12
With Wynton Kelly , Philly Joe Jones and Doug Watkins . Features the Jones- Rollins master workout, "Surrey With The Fringe On Top.
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14
Wonderful Rollins. Undistinguished material. Tommy Flanagan (p) and Branford Marsalis (ts) are tough.
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15
The music on this 1996 CD has been reissued many times including in the Bluebird series.
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16
1957 heralded a new phase in Sonny Rollins' (tenor sax) career. He began -- what was at the time -- an almost blasphemous trend of recording for a number of different labels.
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18
The better-than-usual repertoire (including the calypso "Duke or Iron," "Dancing in the Dark" and the Warren & Dubin number "I'll String Along with You") makes this outing by Sonny Rollins's usual ba
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19
A better purchase than Sonny Boy (OJC 348) which has four of this set's six numbers plus "The House I Live In" from an earlier date. None of the Sonny Rollins' originals (which include "B.
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20
In the intervening years since 9/11, innumerable musicians worldwide have paid homage to the lives lost in the catastrophe.
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21
Tenor saxophonist Rollins has maintained a high level of consistency in his latter-day recordings for Milestone.
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23
Big Brass is an appropiate name for the large ensemble arranged and conducted by Ernie Wilkins that accompanies the huge sound of Sonny Rollins.
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In 1956 Sonny Rollins used the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet (of which he was a member) as his sidemen for this Prestige set.
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29
This excellent album deserves to be reissued in full on CD but some of its music remains out-of-print.
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30
A very interesting CD of material from Sonny Rollins.
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32
My friend Clay stopped by one afternoon. "I was over at the studios rehearsing with the group," he said, "and I ran into Newk. He said he had rented a studio to rehearse.
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34
Sonny Rollins's usual sextet (with trombonist Clifton Anderson, pianist Mark Soskin, guitarist Jerome Harris, electric bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Steve Jordan) welcomes guest drummers Jack DeJo
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36
This decent effort from Sonny Rollins finds the classic tenor saxophonist at his best on "Good Morning Heartache" and "God Bless the Child" although some of his own originals seem a touch lightweight
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37
Sonny Rollins mostly sticks to standard ballads on this excellent CD which finds him joined by trombonist Clifton Anderson, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Bob Cranshaw, drummer Jack DeJohnette and,
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38
Sonny Rollins's RCA recordings of 1962-64 found him really stretching out his style, listening to and learning from Ornette Coleman without losing his own musical personality.
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39
Blue Note's Jazz Profile series is designed for neophytes and beginners curious about a certain musician.
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40
The music on this former LP was the last of tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins' Prestige dates to appear on CD.
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+3 (0.0000)No review available
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This CD from the Bluebird reissue series fills a lot of gaps in Sonny Rollins' discography. The 13 selections are taken from six different sessions from 1964.
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47
An average (for Rollins) session, newly reissued.
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55
Sonny Rollins has an all-star backup band on this 1980 release: keyboardist George Duke, bassist Stanley Clarke, drummer Al Foster and on some selections percussionist Bill Summers.
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