Sonny Rollins To Play The Tarrytown Music Hall: Benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins and his band will perform a special benefit concert for Hudson River Sloop Clearwater on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at the Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, NY. The concert will begin at 2:00 pm.
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Sonny Rollins’s performance in Tarrytown on behalf of Pete Seeger’s Clearwater [...]

Sonny Rollins: Background & History

Born Walter Theodore Rollins in Harlem, New York, he was introduced to jazz and blues by his uncle who was a professional saxophonist. In high school, he decided to play the tenor saxophone after playing piano and alto saxophone during his younger years. He was inspired particularly by Coleman Hawkins and by the time Rollins [...]

Sonny Rollins To Perform At OCPAC

Event:
April 30th, 2009
(8:00 pm)
Orange County Performing Arts Center
Costa Mesa, CA

Sonny Rollins, Grammy Award-winning jazz master, brings his tenor saxophone to the Orange County Performing Arts Center April 30 for a one-night-only special performance in the acoustically superb Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Considered the most formidable of jazz improvisers, Rollins first recorded in 1949 [...]

Saxophonist Sonny Rollins To Put On Multimedia Celebration For 78th Birthday: Will focus on fans and new album

Sonny Rollins, aka the Saxophone Colossus, turns 78 on Sunday, September 7. His website, sonnyrollins.com, is hosting a multimedia celebration that focuses on his fans, his web visitors, his greatest inspiration, Coleman Hawkins, and his extraordinary new recording, Road Shows, Vol. 1.
Content available for viewing or download includes an animated transcription of The Everywhere Calypso, [...]

Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman To Headline 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival

The Chicago Jazz Festival, the city of Chicago’s longest running music festival, announces headliners Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman for the 30th Annual event, August 28-31, 2008. What was born from concerts to remember jazz greats Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, has turned into an annual celebration of jazz music that is not to be [...]

Sonny Rollins Closes Out JVC Jazz Festival In Newport

Saturday’s bill at the JVC Jazz Festival-Newport closed with Aretha Franklin, so it was only fitting that yesterday featured another classic voice at the top of the bill — Sonny Rollins.
The songs and structures weren’t groundbreaking, but that wasn’t the point: The legendary saxophonist’s tone was more than enough to satisfy the announced crowd of [...]