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Melodic improvisation in American jazz : the style of Theodore "Sonny" Rollins, 1951-1962 / by Charles C. Blancq III.
- Text
- 1977.
- 1977
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *XML-1422 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-10016 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins, the journey of a jazzman / by Charles Blancq.
- Text
- Boston : Twayne Publisher's, 1983.
- 1983
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 16-55 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 84-205 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The jazz style of Sonny Rollins : a musical and historical perspective / by David N. Baker.
- Notated music
- Hialeah, FL : Columbia Pictures Publications : Studio Publications/Recordings, c1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNF 86-164 Offsite Ron Carter portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1960?-1989?>
- 1960-1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Carter, Ron Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten / Peter Niklas Wilson.
- Text
- Schaftlach : Oreos, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 93-106 Offsite New York Jazz Museum photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [195-]-[197-]
- 197-197
- 34 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/6bfa5670-c6b3-012f-11a8-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 32 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 33 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 34 Offsite Oral history interview with Abbey Lincoln.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.
- 1996-918
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1062 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-178 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The discography of Sonny Rollins / compiled by Thorbjørn Sjøgren.
- Text
- Soeborg, Denmark : Bidstrup Discographical Pub., 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 97-1349 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Open sky : Sonny Rollins and his world of improvisation / Eric Nisenson.
- Text
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 00-150 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 00-1063 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins : the definitive musical guide / Peter N. Wilson.
- Text
- Berkeley, Calif. : Berkeley Hills Books, c2001.
- 2001
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L 05-5025 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 01-1904 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins : the cutting edge / Richard Palmer.
- Text
- New York : Continuum, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004001222.htmlItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMD 04-885 Offsite Discography of Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins / Jorgen Grunnet Jepsen ; biographical notes by Knud H. Ditlevsen.
- Text
- [Brande, Denmark] : Debut Records, c1960.
- 1960
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-2160 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Freedom now! : four hard bop and avant-garde jazz musicians' musical commentary on the civil rights movement, 1958-1964 / by Lucas Aaron Henry.
- Text
- 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2119&context=etdItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 05-1866 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins portrait collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [196-?]-1979.
- 197-1979
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Rollins, Sonny Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonī Rōrinz [videorecording] : sakusofon korossasu = Sonny Rollins : saxophone colossus / directed, produced and written by Robert Mugge.
- Moving image
- New York : Rhapsody Films, c1995.
- 1995-1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image VTH 4455 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Rollins, Sonny: clippings.
- Text
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *L-CLP (Rollins, Sonny) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Collection of 68 letters and 30 postcards, autograph and typed, most signed, to John Clellon Holmes; with: 1 typed letter to Alan Harrington, and 1 uncompleted letter from Neal Cassady to Holmes; Jack Kerouac autograph manuscript comprising a critique of John Clellon Holmes's novel "Go"; t.l.s. from [Kit and Arthur Knight] to Alfred Hirsch, July 24, 1983; t.l.s. from Maurice Neville to Alfred Hirsch, July 26, 1983.
- Text
- 1948-1969.
- 1948-1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Berg Coll m.b. Kerouac A.l.s. to Holmes, 1948 Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Une année sabbatique / Alain Gerber.
- Text
- Paris : Fallois, c2013.
- 2013
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 13-52473 Offsite Oral history interview with Walter Bolden / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Warren Smith.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1994.
- 1994-809
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc DVD-1084 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Oral history interview with Walter Bishop / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Larry Ridley.
- Moving image
- New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.
- 1996-723
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1083 Disc 1 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1083 Disc 2 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian papers, 1908-2013.
- Mixed material
- 1908-2013
- 156 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/8e52d7f0-5ee4-0133-0a0b-00505686d14eItem details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material JPB 14-28 folder (oversize) 5 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material JPB 14-28 folder (oversize) 6 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Mixed material JPB 14-28 tube 1 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Jazz and Blues Art Box collection, 1985.
- Moving image
- Bern, Switzerland : ArtBox, 2017.
- 2017
- 10 Items
Available Online
http://www.thejazzandbluesartbox.com/index.php?id=12&L=1Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1612 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1613 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1614 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
A great day in Harlem documentary collection.
- Moving image
- 199
- 65 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc DVD-1883 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc DVD-1884 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc MIRS Great 1996 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny's bridge : jazz legend Sonny Rollins finds his groove / Barry Wittenstein ; illustrated by Keith Mallett.
- Text
- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2019.
- 2019
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ F 19-411 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Sonny Rollins photograph collection.
- Still image
- [1948?]-2013.
- 201-2013
- 25 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/726b6680-22d3-0139-502a-0242ac110003Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 19 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 20 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 21 Offsite Saxophone colossus : a portrait of Sonny Rollins / text by Bob Blumenthal ; photographs by John Abbott.
- Text
- New York : Abrams, c2010.
- 2010
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNF 10-330 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 10-694 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sonny Rollins.
- Moving image
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- 2016
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://da-thehistorymakers-org.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2016.113Sonny Rollins plays the bridge / written by Gary Golio ; illustrated by James Ransome.
- Text
- New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021]
- 2021-2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc+ E 22-215 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
The jazz masters : setting the record straight / Peter C. Zimmerman.
- Text
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
- 2021
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 22-3 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Colossus : Rollins like Sonny / Francesco Cataldo, Verrina.
- Text
- [Place of publication not identified] : Kriterius Edizioni, 2022.
- 2022
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 23-255 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Rollins, Sonny.
- Text
Saxophone Colossus : the life and music of Sonny Rollins / Aidan Levy.
- Text
- New York, NY : Hachette Books, 2022.
- 2022-2022
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 23-214 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 22-1567 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bādo to kare no nakamatachi.
- Text
- Tōkyō : Shōbunsha, 1976.
- 1976
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML395 .U335 1976 Off-site Open sky : Sonny Rollins and his world of improvisation / Eric Nisenson.
- Text
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.R64 N57 2000 Off-site Sonny Rollins : the definitive musical guide / by Peter Niklas Wilson.
- Text
- [Berkeley, Calif.] : Berkeley Hills Books, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.R64 W513 2001 Off-site Not available - Please for assistance.Sonny Rollins : the cutting edge / Richard Palmer.
- Text
- New York : Continuum, 2004.
- 2004
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Off-site Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.R64 P35 2004 Off-site Saxophone colossus : a portrait of Sonny Rollins / text by Bob Blumenthal ; photographs by John Abbott.
- Text
- New York : Abrams, 2010.
- 2010
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ML419.R64 B68 2010 Off-site
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