Tenor Madness is an album by jazz musician Sonny Rollins released in October 1956 by Prestige Records. It is most notable for its title track, the only known recording featuring both Rollins and John ...

Sonny Rollins is a legendary musical force, and like Trane, inspires people to this day with his masterful improvisations and amazing wizardry on the saxophone. Sonny is a true legend who respected ...

With a quick group decision, the horn section leapt into Sonny Rollins’s “Tenor Madness,” the rhythm section hot on its heels. They swung hard, and the crowd responded in kind, giving the band all the ...

The Austrian Cross of Honor is like Austria's version of the Nobel Prize. It's given to distinguished people in the arts and sciences to celebrate their achievements, and the number of awards is ...

In the mid-1950s, through the sheer gale force of his surging theme-and-variation solos, Sonny Rollins turned the tenor saxophone into jazz’s iconic horn. Before Rollins, the trumpet and alto ...

It's not easy being a giant. Just ask Sonny Rollins, who, for decades, has tried to live up to the billing as one of the truly big men of jazz. When he turned 75 this year, his record label marked the ...

Rollins recorded his first sessions in 1949, and played his last live shows in 2012. Kevin Whitehead offers an appreciation, then we listen back to a 1994 interview with the tenor saxophonist. This is ...

Joshua Redman, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Giddins and more musicians and writers highlight their favorites from the “saxophone colossus.” Credit...Dante Zaballa Supported by By Giovanni Russonello Walter ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Hill Auditorium was filled Saturday evening as the University Musical Society opened its 12th ...