Bird helped usher in bebop and transformed the alto saxophone into an instrument of startling possibility. Here’s an 11-song ...
Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend dubbed the Saxophone Colossus known for his inimitable improvisational skills, has died at the ...
Sonny Rollins, the jazz legend known as the Saxophone Colossus died yesterday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. He was 95 years old and one of the last of his generation of jazz titans.
Songs That Shaped Us concerts are serving as the cornerstone events of the opening of the new Springsteen Center at Monmouth ...
Tutored by Thelonious Monk, the Harlem native came of age with bebop and created a succession of improvisational masterpieces that made him one of history’s most influential musicians.
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" who was schooled by bebop's legends as a prized sideman and became their peer as a formidable leader, improviser and composer, has died, ...
Get tickets to see Miles Davis, John Coltrane centennial celebration concerts by Ravi Coltrane and Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ Center.
Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness kept him at the creative forefront of jazz for ...
The July program at Grounds for Sculpture will bring together music, visual art and conversation to explore creative freedom ...
On September 5 1992, three nonpareil free musicians, Bristolian saxophonist Evan Parker, Cape Town drummer Louis ...
DJ and producer wev explains how his debut album "OST" turns personal history into a fully realized sonic landscape.