Amid attacks on the future growth of Black television, journalism and media, Jazz Urbane Cafe has declared itself as a cultural epicenter. From the creative minds of Bill Banfield and co-founding ...

Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell takes great care with each note he plays. When he stopped by the World Cafe studio to talk about his new album, In My Dreams, he brought that same care to the stories he ...

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was a genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others Sonny Rollins interview from 2022: ‘I was so ...

After his death aged 95, we look back at a remarkable catalogue of work that stretches from vivacious mid-50s sets to his evocative performance after 9/11 News: Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK - AUGUST 30: Jazz Saxophonist Sonny Rollins signs copies of his new CD at Borders, Columbus Circle August 30, 2005 in New ...

Has there ever been a more justified nickname than “Saxophone Colossus”? That’s what people called Sonny Rollins. Of course they did. Yes, it was the title of a 1957 Rollins album, but the album ...

Sonny Rollins, the "Saxophone Colossus" whose hard-charging yet flowingly meditative works made him the last in a golden era of jazz greats, died Monday. He was 95. "It is with deep sorrow and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sonny Rollins in 1991: the real triumphs of his late maturity were his concerts, when he would improvise with immense ...

A true legend of the jazz world, Sonny Rollins recorded classics including 'Saxophone Colossus' and 'The Bridge'. Presenting him with the National Medal of Arts in 2010, Barack Obama said Rollins had ...

Legendary Jazz musician Sonny Rollins, who was known as the "saxophone colossus", has died aged 95. He died at his home in Woodstock, New York, on Monday afternoon according to a statement from his ...

Sonny Rollins, the “saxophone colossus” who was widely considered America’s greatest living jazz musician and whose musical eloquence and inventiveness kept him at the creative forefront of jazz for ...