It’s Wednesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hot spot for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans ...

With John Lee and Friends in New Jersey at Morris Museum (Aug 29, 2026). Lynette Sheard returns to the Back Deck, this time ...

Sonny Rollins' esteemed 1957 hard bop LP 'Sonny Rollins Vol. 2' is joining Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series later this year.

The late tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins was one of the premier players in jazz. Rollins has been a favorite of both fans and critics, traversing bebop and cool with a strong melodic sound. The ...

The jazz legend fought for nearly 80 years to clear his father of racially motivated charges. Bad publicity: Sonny Rollins’s first appearance in print, at age 15 (pictured at right), was in an article ...

CELEBRATING SONNY: A TRIBUTE TO Sonny Rollins will come to SMOKE Jazz Club, Wednesday - Sunday, June 24-28, 2026. Sonny Rollins, the iconic "Saxophone Colossus," was one of the most influential and ...

It’s probably Sunday for y’all; it’s Tuesday for me. Tuesday, May 26, 2026. Before that sounds too much like an episode of "Dragnet," let me tell y’all why it’s important for me to state the date: ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli. Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins died Monday. He was 95 years old. For decades, he had been hailed as the greatest living jazz musician. Today, we're going to ...

Sonny Rollins started recording in the late 1940s. Early in his career, he played with musicians who were in the pantheon of modern jazz - Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Max ...