Sony Rollins

Theodore Walter Rollins, more known under the name of Sony Rollins , born the September 7th 1930 with New York, is a saxophonist tenor and Compositeur of Jazz. He was born not very far from the temples from the New Yorkean Jazz: The SAVOY, the APOLLO. It starts by playing of the sax viola under the influence of Louis Jordan, then around 16 years passes to the tenor. Coleman Hawkins is there for something. End of the year 1940, it falls into the Be-bop like Obélix in the magic potion. As much of young Sony musicians is impressed by Charlie Parker, then our young tenor is taken under the wing of Thelonious Monk which becomes its guru. It is with Babes Gonzales that it recorded its first disc, Jay Jay Johnson belonged to the adventure. He played with Bud Powell, with Miles Davis Its fifty years of career give him today the statute of last giant in activity. Exaggerated improviser, crossing the kinds, pushing with their limits the sound and phrased, Rollins incarnates the spirit of tireless search whose American black jazz is marked.

Biography

It is at the school of the Be-bop that the young person Theodore Walter Rollins makes his professional classes, starting from 1949. Its first recordings for the Fantasy label reveal a pure and full sonority, inherited Coleman Hawkins, a rhythmic and harmonic control out of the commun run and, already, certain leaning for the déconstruction and the almost frantic rebuilding of the topics. The recognition of the New-yorkais medium is immediate. He plays with Miles Davis or Thelonious Monk and records under his name of the albums become of traditional impossible to circumvent ( Saxophone Colossus , in 1956) with, at his sides, max Roach, Clifford Brown, Tommy Flanagan and John Coltrane, the time of a Tenor Madness memorable.

At the beginning of the Years 1960, whereas public and critical success is not contradicted, the impeccable career misses stopping. Two years of doubt, for lack of new grounds to clear. It takes a voyage in India and hours to be played, only, under the bridge of Williamsburg to New York to bring back it in studio in 1962. The disc of the return is called The Bridge , and constitutes a turning. Floating tempos, less traditional sonority, Rollins breaks the chains of the Hardware-bop to adapt the audacities of the emergent free jazz. Follow the musical meeting with Coleman Hawkins ( Sony meets Hawk ), a Latin album ( What' S new in jazz? ) and a collaboration with Elvin Jones ( East Brodway rundown ), then coldly unloaded group of John Coltrane.

In 2007, it divides the Polar Music Prize with Steve Reich.

Partial discography

  • 1949 : Babs Gonzales and his Orchestrated
this year he plays with Jay Jay Johnson, with Bud Powell, Kenny Dorham, John Lewis.

External bonds

  • Official site of Sony Rollins
  • Discographie supplements of Sony Rollins

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