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Sonny Rollins

June 2022

  • Sonny Rollins

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Hang Gliders with Saxophones by Ian Pople

    A vision of jazz’s iconic instrument as an acrobatic, airborne wonder

January 2022

  • Sonny Rollins plays his saxophone on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York.

    ‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60

    It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practise on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91, Rollins recalls those long cold days – and how he has coped after losing the power to play

December 2020

  • Joshua Redman, Maria Schneider and Laura Jurd.

    Best music of 2020
    The 10 best jazz albums of 2020

  • ‘The greatest living improviser’ ... Sonny Rollins in 1960.

    Sonny Rollins: Rollins in Holland review – saxophone colossus on gale-force form

November 2018

  • Roy Hargrove performing at the Nice Jazz Festival in 2011.

    Roy Hargrove: 10 key performances, from bebop to hip-hop crossovers

    The American trumpeter, who has died aged 49, influenced a new generation of jazz artists with his soul and funk fusion

April 2016

  • Sonny Rollins At The Detroit Jazz festival

    Sonny Rollins: Holding the Stage: Road Shows Vol 4 review – phenomenal stamina

    (Doxy/Okeh)

October 2015

  • Keith Richards performs a salute to Merry Clayton of “Gimme Shelter” fame.

    A Great Night In Harlem review – ramshackle Keith Richards tops jazz benefit bill

    ‘I’m all for improvisation, you know me’ offers the Rolling Stone, lending his support to a night in aid of elderly jazz and blues musicians

March 2015

  • Orrin Keepnews, record producer, who has died aged 91

    Orrin Keepnews obituary

    Record producer who boosted the careers of jazz musicians including Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins

June 2014

  • Road Shows, Volume 3 review – exceptional, even for Sonny Rollins

  • Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol 3 review – feed your live cravings

June 2013

  • Chris Dave and the Drumhedz

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – June

    John Fordham: Looking ahead at June's jazz highlights, Glasgow's jazz festival will rock to Drumhedz, while Bryan Ferry and Branford Marsalis hit London

April 2013

  • Paul Moatian

    Take 5: John Fordham's month in jazz
    Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April

    From Kurt Elling at Ronnie Scott's to the first London jazz festival tickets, John Fordham picks out the month's musical highlights

November 2012

  • Sonny Rollins/Egberto Gismonti – review

    The 82-year-old legend and the self-sufficient Brazilian each gave tour de force performances at the London jazz festival, writes John Fordham

  • Sonny Rollins Trio: Live in Europe 1959 – review

    The same tunes inevitably recur on this set of live recordings but Rollins' improvisations are so intuitive that they're always different, writes John Fordham
  • Miles Davis in 1989

    From Rock's Backpages
    Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults

    With the London jazz festival upon us, we head back to 1985 for this NME encounter with the great trumpeter, in our latest visit to Rock's Backpages, the world's leading archive of vintage music journalism

September 2012

  • World beater … Django Bates.

    Music blog
    Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – September

    In this fifth of a series of monthly columns, John Fordham picks out his musical milestones from recent weeks

October 2011

  • Sonny Rollins: On Impulse!, etc. Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Lady Sinner, etc – review

    Impulse Records celebrates 50 years by releasing 2-on-1 classic albums by Rollins and Mingus in all their glowering, freewheeling glory, finds John Fordham

June 2011

  • Ray BRYANT

    Ray Bryant obituary

    Versatile pianist and a member of a musical dynasty, he bridged the jazz generations

November 2010

  • London Jazz Festival 2010: Day 9

    Sonny Rollins/The Bad Plus

    As if heartened by arrival at his 80th birthday, Rollins swept imperiously through a two-hour single set without a blink, writes John Fordham

May 2010

  • Sonny Rollins: Way Out West

    Concord Music has remastered and reissued a set of jazz landmarks, and Sonny Rollins's 1957 Way Out West is one of the most influential, writes John Fordham
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