Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plays The BluesIn 1958, the first issue of a new magazine named Jazz Review contained an essay by musicologist Gunther Schuller, titled "Sonny Rollins and Thematic Improvisation". The piece's premise was simple to examine a single Rollins' solo on a recording called Blue 7 (heard on the saxophonist's iconic 1956 LP Saxophone Colossus), whose title gave away the basic structure of the performance that of the back bone of jazz, the twelve bar blues. Rollins was

both with his instrumental classics and with the new songs of the time

' Felix Mendelssohn brings the illustrious company of elves

"Who Can Explain"

who later on

he had more than 70 records that were credited as chart hits

The ensemble Les Traversées Baroques presents a selection of his madrigals in a wide variety of settings

Where he was hugely successful

Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima and giving a recital at the Prague Spring festival

organic intermingling of Eastern and Western musical traditions has proven transformative for both the band's members and it's listeners

It's a thorough overview of his chart career

girl groups and a little Pop

becoming his manager