Theodore Walter (Sonny) Rollins (born in 1930 - ) is an American jazz musician and tenor saxophonist. Sonny Rollins has a long productive career in jazz. He started at eleven, and played all of his twentieth along with Thelonious Monk. Today (2012) he was still touring and he takes more albums. Enjoyed generation with whom he recorded and he survived meanwhile, are among others John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Art Blakey. Rollins is known for its powerful sound that he include his circular breathing technique thanks and using a very open mouthpiece.
Important Albums
1953 Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet
1954 Moving Out
1955 Work Time
1956 Tenor Madness
1956 Saxophone Colossus
1956 Sonny Boy
1957 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 1
1957 Way Out West
1957 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
1957 Newk's Time
1957 Sonny Rollins Plays / Thad Jones Plays
1958 Sonny Rollins and the Big Brass
1958 Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
1962 The Bridge
With Miles Davis
Miles Davis and Horns (1951)
Dig (1951)
Bags' Groove (1954)
With Kenny Dorham
Jazz Contrasts (Riverside, 1957)
With J. J. Johnson
Trombone By Three (1949)
With Modern Jazz Quartet
The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1958)
With Thelonious Monk
Monk (1954)
Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (1953)
Brilliant Corners (1957)
With Bud Powell
The Amazing Bud Powell (1949)
With Max Roach
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956) - with Clifford Brown
With The Rolling Stones
Tattoo You (1981)