Biography
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Sonny Rollins
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Birth name :
Walter Theodore Rollins
Genres :
Jazz
Hard bop
Instruments :
Tenor saxophone
Soprano saxophone
Also known as :
Newk
Colossus
Labels :
Prestige
Blue Note
Contemporary
RCA Victor
Impulse!
Milestone
Okeh
Years active :
Late 1940s – present
Born / Died
Born:(1930-09-07) September 7, 1930 (age 86) New York City, New York, U.S.
Website :
sonnyrollins.com
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded at least sixty albums as leader and a number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called "the greatest living improviser."
