Sonny Rollins
Birthday
1930/09/07 (94 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also know as
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Biography
Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including "St. Thomas", "Oleo", "Doxy", "Pent-Up House", and "Airegin", have become jazz standards. Rollins has been called "the greatest living improviser" and the "Saxophone Colossus". Rollins was born in New York...Read more
Acting
(2023) Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
(2009) The Jazz Baroness
as Self
(2010) Sonny Rollins '74: Rescued!
as Self
(2002) John Coltrane Four Tenors
as Himself
(2012) Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes
as Self
(2022) Hargrove
as Self
(1968) Who Is Sonny Rollins?
as Self
Sonny Rollins Sextet 1993 Jazz Madrid
as Self
(1998) Saxophone Colossus
as Self
(2017) Chasing Trane
as Self - Musician
(2014) Brownie Speaks
as Self
(2018) It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story
as Self
(2008) Jazz Icons: Sonny Rollins Live in '65 & '68
as Self
(1994) A Great Day in Harlem
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1989) The Simpsons
as Sonny Rollins (voice)