Sonny Rollins

Sonny Rollins, Barbican Hall, London

The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday

Tears started rolling as soon as the saxophone legend Theodore "Sonny" Rollins took the stage, and continued for much of the 90- minute performance.

Review: Stan Sulzmann Quartet

LondonJazz (Free subscription) | yesterday

Review: Stan Sulzmann Quartet The Green Man, London Jazz Festival, November 20th 2009, review by Patrick Hadfield) After four nights going to gigs in the Queen Elizabeth Hall – a concert venue if ever there was one – on Friday I headed down to the basement of the Green Man by Great Portland Street station. Just like the QEH gigs, this one was also packed to capacity – standing room...

How Are Things in Glocca Morra

The Garlic (Free subscription) | yesterday

Might as well ask, about there, since there hasn't been much going on here, on The Garlic, of recent times. So sorry, Garlic Fans, as we have been flat out, jammin' with a multitude of things on the homefront. When The Aunt was released from short-term Rehab , nearly a month ago, we implemented a Hospice here at home (not that she is terminal for anything other than her age, a few weakening parts,...

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Saxophonist Myron Walden Returns with New 'Momentum'

All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

By Tad Hendrickson...

• Jazz Saxophonist Myron Walden Returns With New 'Momentum' - Spinner.com

Review: Sheila Jordan

LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009

Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig (Bull's Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) "It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…," mused a member of the audience at the busy Bull’s Head on Wednesday night. "...but it’s difficult to convey overly emotive songs, and it’s difficult to convey jokey...

Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936...

Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995, Wherever you are. Here he is with Sonny Rollins Then, with James Blood Ulmer and Rashied Ali

Sonny Rollins - My One and Only Love

bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009

This just blew my sox off! Liz

Herbie Mann Sextet at Newport Jazz Festival Jul 4, 1959

Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Download for $9.98. Listen to Herbie Mann Sextet performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959

Maynard Ferguson & Orchestra at Newport Jazz Festival Jul 3, 1959

Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009

Download for $9.98. Listen to Maynard Ferguson & Orchestra performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 3, 1959

Sonny Rollins, Barbican, London

The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009

The legendary Sonny Rollins played to a sell out Barbican last night. At 79-years old he’s outlived the other players that shaped the jazz genre, yet when we spoke he was philosophically flippant about the thought of death.

Review: Sonny Rollins

LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009

Sonny Rollins Barbican Centre, November 14th 2009 Don't Stop the Carnival. The title of the calypso anthem says it all, really. This was the tune which brought Sonny Rollins ' Barbican appearance in the London Jazz Festival to a rousing, triumphant, and thoroughly fitting close. Drummer Kobie Watkins , was hitting the accented fourth beat of every bar, good, hard, and double-handed. Rollins ended...

Saxophone Colossus

Shiraz Socialist (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket to hear the great Sonny Rollins tonight at the Brabican, you’re very lucky. Rollins is part of the London Jazz Festival – most of which strikes me as meretricious non-jazz garbage, of the type John Fordham regularly gets excited about in the Graun. Rollins, however, is a true jazz great and – [...]

Recent Listening: Dick Katz (RIP)

Rifftides (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009

Dick Katz, The Line Forms Here (Reservoir). The news of Katz's death at 85 last week sent me to the shelf for this 1996 recording. It covers the range of his talents as pianist, composer and arranger. He plays alone...

How to Make Your Own Rap Beats - Free Beat Rap Tips

The Music Digest (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

If you want to learn how to make your own rap beats, then read this. You will learn free beat rap tips.

The Jazz Baroness (2009)

The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

UK Television Documentary Writer/Director/Cinematographer/Narrator: Hannah Rothschild Cast: Helen Mirren Featuring: Thelonious Monk Jr., Quincy Jones, Lord Rothschild, Chico Hamilton, Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins Hannah Rothschild presents a loving if rather uncritical portrait of the 28-years-long friendship between her great aunt, Panonnica Rothschild, a blue-blooded white English woman, and Jazz Pianist...

Summer Festivals in France 2009

ifp | 17/06/2009

We have made a selection of the best music and cultural festivals in France this summer. SOUTH: * Vence, Côte d'Azur, Les Nuits du Sud, 10th July to 8th August - The 12th edition of this "Music of the World" festival with exhibitions, activities and free concerts on the 16th and 23rd of July and 5th of August. Artists include Gilberto Gil, Grand Corps Malade, Pascale Picard, Amadou et Mariam, Khaled,