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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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XML-1422Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-10016Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sonny Rollins, the journey of a jazzman / by Charles Blancq.

    • Text
    • Boston : Twayne Publisher's, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 16-55Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 84-205Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 86-164Offsite
  • Ron Carter portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1960?-1989?>
    • 1960-1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Carter, RonSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • Sonny Rollins : sein Leben, seine Musik, seine Schallplatten / Peter Niklas Wilson.

    • Text
    • Schaftlach : Oreos, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 93-106Offsite
  • 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-11a8-58d385a7bc34
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 32Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 33Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo New York Jazz Museum box 34Offsite
  • Oral history interview with Abbey Lincoln.

    • Moving image
    • New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1996.
    • 1996-918
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1062Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual VRA-178Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • The discography of Sonny Rollins / compiled by Thorbjørn Sjøgren.

    • Text
    • Soeborg, Denmark : Bidstrup Discographical Pub., 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 97-1349Offsite

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  • Open sky : Sonny Rollins and his world of improvisation / Eric Nisenson.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 00-150Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 00-1063Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sonny Rollins : the definitive musical guide / Peter N. Wilson.

    • Text
    • Berkeley, Calif. : Berkeley Hills Books, c2001.
    • 2001
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L 05-5025Offsite

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 01-1904Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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.html
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JMD 04-885Offsite
  • Discography of Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins / Jorgen Grunnet Jepsen ; biographical notes by Knud H. Ditlevsen.

    • Text
    • [Brande, Denmark] : Debut Records, c1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 04-2160Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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=etd
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 05-1866Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sonny Rollins portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • [196-?]-1979.
    • 197-1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Rollins, SonnySchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image VTH 4455Offsite

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  • Rollins, Sonny: clippings.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *L-CLP (Rollins, Sonny)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Berg Coll m.b. Kerouac A.l.s. to Holmes, 1948Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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  • Une année sabbatique / Alain Gerber.

    • Text
    • Paris : Fallois, c2013.
    • 2013
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ReCAP 13-52473Offsite
  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc DVD-1084Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1083 Disc 1Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1083 Disc 2Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • 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-00505686d14e
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material JPB 14-28 folder (oversize) 5Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material JPB 14-28 folder (oversize) 6Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material JPB 14-28 tube 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • 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=1
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1612Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1613Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-1614Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • A great day in Harlem documentary collection.

    • Moving image
    • 199
    • 65 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc DVD-1883Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc DVD-1884Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc MIRS Great 1996Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Sonny's bridge : jazz legend Sonny Rollins finds his groove / Barry Wittenstein ; illustrated by Keith Mallett.

    • Text
    • Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2019.
    • 2019
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ F 19-411Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sonny Rollins photograph collection.

    • Still image
    • [1948?]-2013.
    • 201-2013
    • 25 Items

    Available Online

    https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/726b6680-22d3-0139-502a-0242ac110003
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 19Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 20Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Sonny Rollins Collection Box 21Offsite
  • Saxophone colossus : a portrait of Sonny Rollins / text by Bob Blumenthal ; photographs by John Abbott.

    • Text
    • New York : Abrams, c2010.
    • 2010
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNF 10-330Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 10-694Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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=A2016.113
  • Sonny 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ E 22-215Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The jazz masters : setting the record straight / Peter C. Zimmerman.

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNE 22-3Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Colossus : Rollins like Sonny / Francesco Cataldo, Verrina.

    • Text
    • [Place of publication not identified] : Kriterius Edizioni, 2022.
    • 2022
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 23-255Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • 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
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 23-214Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 22-1567Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Bādo to kare no nakamatachi.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Shōbunsha, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML395 .U335 1976Off-site
  • Open sky : Sonny Rollins and his world of improvisation / Eric Nisenson.

    • Text
    • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML419.R64 N57 2000Off-site
  • Sonny Rollins : the definitive musical guide / by Peter Niklas Wilson.

    • Text
    • [Berkeley, Calif.] : Berkeley Hills Books, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML419.R64 W513 2001Off-site
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  • Sonny Rollins : the cutting edge / Richard Palmer.

    • Text
    • New York : Continuum, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Off-site
    Not available - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML419.R64 P35 2004Off-site
  • Saxophone colossus : a portrait of Sonny Rollins / text by Bob Blumenthal ; photographs by John Abbott.

    • Text
    • New York : Abrams, 2010.
    • 2010
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ML419.R64 B68 2010Off-site

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