jazz Rollins, Sonny,Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Sonny Rollins,(SAME DAY SHIPPING)

Description: When, fifty years from now, people are asked to nominate the greatest jazz musicians of the second half of the twentieth century, there should be little debate about Sonny Rollins's place in the pantheon; indeed, some would ague that he belongs at the very top. For many people, Sonny Rollins is nothing less than the quintessential jazz musician.Rollins blossomed in the Fifties, having absorbed all the lessons of the swing and bop eras. By the end of that decade he had apprenticed in the bands of Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, and then gone on to master many styles of his own.Since then, he has continued to take on the challenges of succeeding generations, polishing his small-group approach and perfecting his colossal saxophone sound.Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone with featured personnel:Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet;Coleman Hawkins, Sonny Stitt, tenor saxophone; Paul Bley, Ray Bryant, Tommy Flanagan, Richie Powell, Horace Silver, piano; Jim Hall, guitar; Ray Brown, Tommy Bryant, Bob Cranshaw, George Morrow, Percy Heath, Wilbur Ware, Doug Watkins, bass; Kenny Clarke, Elvin Jones, Shelly Manne, Charli Persip, Ben Riley, Max Roach, drums; plus additional personnel listed on inside of booklet. Sonny Rollins, who was born in 1930 in a cosmopolitan and fairly affluent section of Harlem nicknamed Sugar Hill, is these days routinely hailed as the greatest living tenor saxophonist, but this isn't going far enough. Rollins is the greatest living jazz improviser, and if we redefine virtuosity to include improvisational cunning as well as instrumental finesse (as we probably should when discussing this music), he may be the greatest virtuoso ever produced by jazz.Rollins's list of associates from his recording debut in 1949 to his first sabbatical ten years later is impressive: Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Thelonious Monk, Clifford Brown, and Max Roach, for starters. But this sort of cross-refer-encing hardly conveys Rollins's true significance.Unlike Parker, Louis Armstrong, or Ornette Coleman, Rollins didn't alter the rhythmic syntax of jazz. Unlike Davis, he has never been a reliable bellwether of new trends. Although a number of his tunes, including this collection's "Oleo" (featuring Rollins as a sideman with Miles Davis), have become jam-session standbys, he has never been a composer on the grand scale of a Duke Ellington or Charles Mingus, or even one on the deceptively minor scale of Monk. And though countless saxophonists have aped his stylistic mannerisms, his influence has never been as all-pervasive as Coltrane's was in the mid-1960s. Yet when conjuring up an image of the quintessential jazz musician - one who realizes that improvisation is a gamble requiring puttin....................... ORDER BEFORE 2 PM CENTRAL - SAME DAY SHIPPINGPRMCD245

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