Four Classic Albums (Sonny Rollins Plus 4/Sonny Rollins Vol.1/Sonny Rollins Vol.2/Saxophone Colossus) - Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins

Advantages: Possibly the best tenor saxophonist ever - without a doubt the best still alive!
Disadvantages: None - if you want to see him live, you should try to soon - he's getting on a bit now - 73 yrs old now - still as good as ever though!

Sonny Rollins is my favourite tenor saxophonist, and is in my opinion the best saxophonist ever. Sonny has a lovely deep, rich tone, right the way from the bottom of his horn to the top. Like many of the great jazz musicians, Sonny was not only a great player, but also a great composer, having written loads of tunes, including St Thomas, Tenor Madness, Doxy, Oleo, Airegin, to name but a few. Sonny Rollins has recorded many famous C.D.'s, but perhaps his best two, and my favourite are saxophone colossus and tenor madness (featuring a stunning recording of tenor madness with coltrane and rollins playing together!) Both of these C.D's feature Sonny Rollins in full swing, at the top of his playing, with his classic tone and characteristic phrasing and solo's. Throughout his life, Sonny Rollins had a chance to play and record ...

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Urban Cool

Advantages: Sublime music and musicianship
Disadvantages: None

shops, let alone search around them for jazz, so I get most things from Amazon - there it is currently £13.00 with a wait of four weeks, plus some on marketplace for around a fiver plus p and p. SONNY ROLLINS WEBSITE: www.sonnyrolllins.com ...

nubbler 19.11.2005 (28.11.2006) · Read full review
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henry rollins - get in the van (collected journal)

Advantages: no real need to finish it in one go
Disadvantages: only for fanatics really

NOTE - this is a review of the book (although i believe it has been done as spoken word also.) henry rollins was the vocalist in black flag, possibly the most influential LA hardcore band, from 1981 until their dissolution in 1986. totally at odds with his warped stage persona, he was a fairly insular character, and so chose to keep a journal rather than interact with those around him, and what we have here are his collected entries from about 1983 onwards, along with whatever he can recall about the time prior to that. much like kurt cobain's journals, he didn't originally think this would be published, so nothing is held back (which does mean that there are a few passages which can pretty much just be ignored). he pisses and moans about his bandmates, fans, pretty much everyone he meets apart from ian mackaye (of fugazi, who was ...

migfreeman 19.07.2005 · Read full review
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