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At 87, legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins can no longer play his horn, but he's still searching for his sound Few, if any, genres of music have gone through a lifecycle as dynamic as jazz.
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For this special hour, we take a deep dive into the icons who have defined the sound of jazz and graced our interview series. We begin with the saxophone giant Sonny Rollins, featuring music from his ...
The Murray State University Jazz Ensembles will present concerts on Tuesday, April 8 at Lovett Auditorium on the Murray ...
Mark Smotroff is a deep music enthusiast / collector who has also worked in entertainment oriented marketing communications ...
Sonny Rollins is, as the title of his 1957 album ... This is the hardest thing to do in jazz, next to making a living. Mr. Rollins’s “Notebooks” pick up during the pre-1961 interlude with ...
Volume 1 is Rollins’ debut platter for Blue Note, reissued here as part of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Reissue series, which ...
Celebrate the birthday of iconic jazz trumpet player, Freddie Hubbard, born in Indianapolis in 1938. Hubbard’s technical mastery of the trumpet earned widespread critical acclaim, and his influence ...
Sonny’s tune Antony gives him a sustained, inventive solo and the 11 minutes of Sonny Rollins’s Tenor Madness gives full ... and the years that followed were hard for large-scale jazz orchestras. So ...