- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 30 min., 19 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Jazz composer and saxophonist Sonny Rollins was born on September 7, 1930 in New York City. Rollins compositions Oleo, Airegin, and Doxy, recorded on Miles Davis' Bag's Groove (1954), all became jazz standards. Rollins recorded the massively acclaimed album Saxophone Colossus in 1956, which included his composition St. Thomas, based upon a calypso sung by his mother. He pioneered the use of bass and drums, without piano, as accompaniment for saxophone solos in 1957, and released Freedom Suite in 1958, which denounced African Americans' dehumanization. Following a musical sabbatical spent playing on the Williamsburg Bridge, Rollins released The Bridge (1962) and East Broadway Run Down (1962), a noted free jazz experiment. He studied yoga at an Indian ashram during another sabbatical from 1969 to 1971. An environmental advocate, Rollins released Global Warming in 1998. Rollins recorded over sixty albums in his name and received numerous honors, including several Grammy Awards.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Sonny Rollins
- Sonny Rollins
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 998759988
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sonny Rollins.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States naf
- Playing Time
033019
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Harriette Cole, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
Recorded Woodstock, New York 2016 December 3.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Jazz Composer Saxophonist.
- Added Author
Rollins, Sonny, interviewee.
Cole, Harriette, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.