The Definitive Musical Guide • Author: Peter Niklas Wilson • Publisher: N.A • ISBN: 065 • Category: Music • Page: 244 • View: 8472 Wilson's biography of Sonny Rollins presents the life and legend of one of the most remarkable players and personalities in jazz. The book provides an in-depth analysis of key aspects of Rollins's music and his eccentric repertoire. An annotated and illustrated discography surveys the nearly 100 albums he has recorded throughout his lengthy career. Jazz Play-Along • Author: Sonny Rollins • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation • ISBN: • Category: Music • Page: 64 • View: 1131 (Jazz Play Along). For use with all Bb, Eb, and C instruments, the Jazz Play-Along series is the ultimate learning tool for all jazz musicians.
Sonny Rollins Omnibook for B-flat Instruments Series: Jazz Transcriptions Softcover Artist: Sonny Rollins 24.99 (US) HL 00232485 ISBN: 862 Miles Davis Omnibook for C Instruments Series: Jazz Transcriptions Softcover Artist: Miles Davis 19.99 (US). The Sonny Rollins Omnibook was transcribed by Chris “Doc” Stewart who was a student of Charlie Shoemake. There are some great paragraphs on the second page of the book where Chris writes about how he studied with Charlie Shoemake and Charlie would use Sonny Rollins transcriptions with Chris in their lessons.
With musician-friendly lead sheets, melody cues, and audio, this first-of-its-kind package makes learning to play jazz easier than ever before. For study, each tune includes audio with: * Melody cue with proper style and inflection * Professional rhythm tracks * Choruses for soloing * Removable bass part * Removable piano part. For perofrmance, each tune also has: * An additional full stereo accompaniment track (no melody) * Additional choruses for soloing. This volume includes: Airegin * Alfie's Theme * Biji * The Bridge * Doxy * First Moves * Here's to the People * Oleo * St. Thomas * Sonnymoon for Two. • Author: Sonny Rollins • Publisher: Hal Leonard • ISBN: • Category: Music • Page: 64 • View: 5244 (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 • Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation • ISBN: • Category: Music • Page: 216 • View: 4613 (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 and His World of Improvisation • Author: Eric Nisenson • Publisher: St. Martin's Press • ISBN: • Category: Biography & Autobiography • Page: 216 • View: 7680 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. Nokia 108 rm 944 usb driver. 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. • Author: Sonny Rollins,Jamey Aebersold • Publisher: Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated • ISBN: 346 • Category: Music • Page: 33 • View: 8743 These tunes represent a large portion of the jazz player's vocabulary and all are considered jazz standards.
Songs range from simple to complex, slow tempos to fast. The chord changes on several tunes are such that even the novice improviser can solo using a single scale such as the blues or pentatonic, yet intermediate and advanced players will have plenty of challenge playing on the flowing and natural chord changes. Others present a greater challenge, with fast tempos, 3/4 time signatures, and alternating grooves. Rhythm Section: Dan Haerle (p); Rufus Reid (b); Jonathan Higgins (d). Titles: Doxy * Oleo * St. Thomas * Pent Up House * Blue Seven * Valse Hot * Tenor Madness * Solid * Airegin.