Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins

Born: New York, NY, 1930

Years Active: 1962-2008

Member of: Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet

Influenced by: Lester Young, Louis Jordan, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Stitt, Coleman Hawkins, Dexter Gordon

Genre: Jazz

Biography: Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, ...

Road Shows, Vol. 1
Released: 10/28/08
Complete 1963 Paris Concert
Released: 07/07/08
Reel Life
Released: 03/25/08
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