Author: Sonny RollinsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Essential Sonny Rollins On Riverside
Author: Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins
Author: Richard PalmerPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780826469168
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
One of the world's great tenor saxophonists, Sonny Rollins has always been committed to the fundamental truths of jazz, especially swing. He has managed to be consistently experimental and forward-looking, and he has recorded at least a dozen essential albums. Here, Richard Palmer charts Rollins's career in full.
Playing Changes
Author: Nate ChinenPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 1101870346
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of jazz’s leading critics gives us an invigorating, richly detailed portrait of the artists and events that have shaped the music of our time. Grounded in authority and brimming with style, Playing Changes is the first book to take the measure of this exhilarating moment: it is a compelling argument for the resiliency of the art form and a rejoinder to any claims about its calcification or demise. “Playing changes,” in jazz parlance, has long referred to an improviser’s resourceful path through a chord progression. Playing Changes boldly expands on the idea, highlighting a host of significant changes—ideological, technological, theoretical, and practical—that jazz musicians have learned to navigate since the turn of the century. Nate Chinen, who has chronicled this evolution firsthand throughout his journalistic career, vividly sets the backdrop, charting the origins of jazz historicism and the rise of an institutional framework for the music. He traces the influence of commercialized jazz education and reflects on the implications of a globalized jazz ecology. He unpacks the synergies between jazz and postmillennial hip-hop and R&B, illuminating an emergent rhythm signature for the music. And he shows how a new generation of shape-shifting elders, including Wayne Shorter and Henry Threadgill, have moved the aesthetic center of the music. Woven throughout the book is a vibrant cast of characters—from the saxophonists Steve Coleman and Kamasi Washington to the pianists Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding—who have exerted an important influence on the scene. This is an adaptive new music for a complex new reality, and Playing Changes is the definitive guide.
Sonny Rollins
Author: Peter Niklas WilsonPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Wilson also explores the source of Rollins' restlessness, and describes his ongoing search for peace through Zen, Vedic philosophy, and other disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Open Sky
Author: Eric NisensonPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250092620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Sonny Rollins is arguably the most influential tenor saxophonist that jazz has produced. He began his musical career at the tender age of eleven, and within five short years he was playing with the legendary Thelonius Monk. In the late forties (before his twenty-first birthday), Rollins was in full swing, recording with jazz luminaries such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Fats Navarro. He was hailed as the best jazz tenor saxophonist alive during the years 1955 to 1959, when he was credited with pioneering the use of 3/4-time in bop music.Today, forty years later, Rollins's onstage appearances are eagerly anticipated events, where his compelling sound reaches a whole new generation of listeners. Renowned jazz writer Eric Nisenson has penned a long-overdue look at one of jazz music's brightest and most enduring stars.
Sonny Rollins on Impulse
Author: Sonny RollinsSonny Rollins Omnibook for C Instruments
Author: Sonny RollinsPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1540068471
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
(Jazz Transcriptions). The Sonny Rollins Omnibook celebrates the bebop legend that worked with Miles, Monk, MJQ, and many others. His solo work has earned him many accolades, including Grammy Awards, election into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Edward MacDowell Medal, and the Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama. This collection features 50 of his best, including: Airegin * All the Things You Are * Almost like Being in Love * Bouncing with Bud * Doxy * Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye * I'll Remember April * Just in Time * Namely You * Oleo * On a Slow Boat to China * St. Thomas * Solid * Sonnymoon for Two * Vierd Blues * Woodyn' You * and more.
Sonny Rollins, the Journey of a Jazzman
Author: Charles BlancqPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Best of Sonny Rollins Songbook
Author: Sonny RollinsPublisher: Hal Leonard
ISBN: 1476876673
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
(Artist Transcriptions). According to the All Music Guide , Sonny Rollins will go down in history as not only the single most enduring tenor saxophonist of the bebop and hard bop era, but also the greatest contemporary jazz saxophonist of them all. Our folio features note-for-note sax transcriptions of ten of his best: Airegin * Blue Seven * Doxy * Oleo * Paul's Pal * Pent Up House * St. Thomas * Strode Rode * Tenor Madness * Valse Hot, plus a discography and album info for each tune.
Author: Sonny Rollins