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Bret’s 10 Favorite Sonny Rollins Recordings
Saxophone Colossus
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Way Out West
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The Bridge
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A Night at the Village Vanguard
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Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
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Tenor Madness
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Freedom Suite
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Don’t Stop the Carnival
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The Sound of Sonny
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Sonny Rollins Omnibook
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Sonny Rolins Transcriptions
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Sonny Rollins discusses an early influence, Art Tatum, as well his thoughts on the Great American Songbook.
Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded at least sixty albums as leader and a number of his compositions, including “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, “Doxy”, “Pent-Up House”, and “Airegin”, have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called “the greatest living improvise.r”
