Artist: Sonny Rollins
Sonny Rollins has remained one of the true jazz giants, ranking up there with Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and John Coltrane as one of the all-time great tenor saxophonists. He started on piano, took up the alto, and then permanently switched to tenor in 1946. After making his recording debut with Babs Gonzales in 1949, Rollins made a major impact on dates with J.J. Johnson and Bud Powell the same year; the latter session also matched him with Fats Navarro. Rollins' abilities were obvious to the jazz world from the start and he started recording with Miles Davis in 1951 and with Thelonious Monk two years later.
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- Related artists
- Coleman Hawkins
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Fats Navarro
- Jim Hall
- Max Roach
- Miles Davis
- Pat Metheny
- Sonny Stitt
- The Paul Bley Quartet
- Thelonious Monk
- Similar artists
- Billy Higgins
- Bud Powell
- Clifford Brown
- Don Cherry
- Donald Byrd
- Elvin Jones
- Fats Navarro
- Horace Silver
- J.J. Johnson
- Jackie McLean
- Jim Hall
- John Coltrane
- McCoy Tyner
- Ron Carter
- Archie Shepp
- Booker Ervin
- Hank Mobley
- Lou Donaldson
- Stan Getz
- Wayne Shorter
- George Coleman
- Joe Henderson
- Miles Davis
Albums
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Various Artists: Impulse! Basics: Can You Dig It!
1996 GRP
