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!
SonnyRollins 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.
SonnyRollins 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 SonnyRollins in full swing, at the top of his playing, with his classic tone and characteristic phrasing and solo's.
Throughout his life, SonnyRollins had a chance to play and record ...
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Sonny Rollins
Advantages: Sublime music and musicianship Disadvantages: None
This is the original score to the 60s film Alfie, composed and played by SonnyRollins, one of the greatest tenor sax players. I watched this film several times before really appreciating the score, being so intent on the story and film locations, and later checked yes, it was Rollins playing, and he also wrote it.
WHO IS SONNYROLLINS?
If you like jazz you don't need me to provide a biog. Sonny [Theodore Walter] Rollins was born in 1930 in New York, arguably one of the best jazz tenor saxophonists of all time. He was already playing with one of the greats, Thelonious Monk before he was 20, and later performed and recorded with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey. In 1955 he joined the Clifford Brown / Max Roach quintet. He was known for his improvisations, sometimes highly imaginative takes on relatively moribund ...
Advantages: Fast paced Disadvantages: last 50 or so pages
'The Lost Symbol is the latest offering from Dan Brown featuring Harvard Symbologist Robert Langdon and like all avid readers of his work I was looking forward to reading the book.
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At 6am on a Sunday morning Robert Langdon receives a message from his mentor and friend, prominent 33rd Degree Mason Peter Solomon, to conduct a lecture in Washington?s Capitol Building and not wanting to let his friend down Langdon agrees to go and sets off for the airport where Peter?s private jet is waiting for him. However on arrival at the Rotunda area within the Capitol Building, something strikes Langdon as odd, there is nobody waiting there for the lecture. Believing he is in the wrong building Langdon is set to walk about but is interrupted by a commotion, on looking on what the problem is, it seems that somebody has left a strategically ...
Product Information for "Sax Symbol - Sonny Rollins" »
Product details
Title
Sax Symbol
Performer
Sonny Rollins
Genre
Jazz Instrument
Sub Genre
Tenor Sax
Release Date
09/04/2007
Recomended Retail Price
17.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2007
Label / Distributor
Proper / Proper
Pieces in Set
4
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
805520021241
Catalogue Number
PROPERBOX 124
Additional notes
Album Notes
This budget-priced four-CD box set is a superb overview of the 1950s beginnings of the jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins' six-decade career. From the Lester Young-like smoky tone and relaxed phrasing of his 1953 work with the Modern Jazz Quartet, such as "Ina Sentimental Mood" and "Almost Like Being in Love," to his later more mature 1956 recordings, such as "St. Thomas" and You Don't Know What Love Is," this collection reveals the genesis of Rollins' remarkable musical journey.
