He dropped out to save himself, just as Miles Davis and John Coltrane had done. The fact that he is still alive today can be traced to this decision. The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins begin on the ...

In this 2000 interview, the Pulp Fiction star remembered watching movies in segregated theaters. Though he often plays tough guys he said, in real life, "I don't walk around looking for trouble." ...

His other credits included Sonny Rollins, Bill Dixon and Yoko Ono ... Mississippi, started out playing hard bop with Freddie Hubbard and Dizzy Gillespie in the 50s but made his mark as a member ...

So at the very end, you're at a diner with John Travolta when two crazy people pull out their guns and demand ... (SOUNDBITE OF SONNY ROLLINS' "TOOT, TOOT, TOOTSIE") GROSS: FRESH AIR's executive ...

He started out on piano as a six-year-old ... are still the cats that are influencing me today," says Alexander. "Monk, Dizzy, Sonny Stitt, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, Joe ...

Played basketball for Saint John's prep, and coming out was looking at schools ... you know, you had Sonny Rollins. So, the relationships that they may have had, you know, will cause you to ...

The master of modern jazz guitar who had played with Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer ... the reissue of Louis Stewart's seminal 1977 album Out ...

Born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, Smith was originally an aspiring jazz pianist who gravitated to the organ apparently out of necessity ... Johnny Griffin, Sonny Rollins, and Thad Jones).

That results in plenty of traveling for Rollins, but that won’t affect her marriage to ADA Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino ... and he told Benson that he’d “figure out a way to be okay ...

That results in plenty of traveling for Rollins, but that won’t affect her marriage to ADA Sonny Carisi (Peter Scanavino ... and he told Benson that he’d “figure out a way to be okay with it” if she ...

Over and over, decade after decade, from the late seventies through the eighties and nineties, there he is, Sonny Rollins, the saxophone colossus, playing somewhere in the world, some afternoon or ...