It’s hard to question the choice of any of Blue Note’s Classic Vinyl Reissue series repressing, and there are clearly no better-sounding jazz reissues out there. Sonny Rollins’ Volume 1 is another ...

Donald Byrd’s 1974’s jazz-funk fusion classic ‘Stepping Into Tomorrow’ returns on vinyl on July 18 through Blue Note’s ...

The Life And Music Of Sonny Rollins (2022, Hachette Books). Levy's biography—all 720 colossal pages of it—requires a serious commitment on the part of his readers, and the various vinyl issues require ...

Surveying the vinyl boom of the last few years ... Among their first releases, the two-disc Deluxe Edition of Sonny Rollins' Way Out West is an ambitious package that has already stirred up some ...

Sonny Rollins’ improvisational skill and tone are front and center in “Saxophone Colossus.” The rich, melodic solos and blues-infused jazz sound best on vinyl, where the depth and detail of ...

Hear tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Robert Glasper and more from ... with its instantly recognizable blue-and-white vinyl center labels and decades-long run of landmark albums, some ...

Sonny Rollins leads the way on our first episode for 2019. Our January Retro Artist is front-and-centre on a selection of records from his early days on Prestige and we'll also sample something ...

Today, he has some thoughts about saxophonist Sonny Rollins in 1959. Early in that year, Rollins took a trio to Europe for a tour documented on a new reissue. Five months later, he withdrew from ...

Sonny Rollins used to rent an apartment in New York on Greenwich and Duane streets, six blocks from the World Trade Center, and he was in the apartment, up on the 40th floor, when the planes hit.

Books in Review Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins By Aidan Levy Buy this book Sonny Rollins is the last living progenitor of jazz’s make-it-new ascent during the 20th century.