| Sonny Rollins discography | |
|---|---|
 Rollins performing solo at the San Francisco Opera House in February 1982 | |
| Studio albums | 49 |
| Live albums | 11 |
| Appearances | 25 |
This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.
| Sonny Rollins discography | |
|---|---|
| Rollins performing solo at the San Francisco Opera House in February 1982 | |
| Studio albums | 49 |
| Live albums | 11 |
| Appearances | 25 |
This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.
| 1957 | A Night at the Village Vanguard | Blue Note |
| 1959 | Sonny Rollins at Music Inn | MetroJazz |
| 1959 | Oleo 1959 | Old Style |
| 1962 | Our Man in Jazz | RCA Victor |
| 1965 | There Will Never Be Another You | Impulse! |
| 1973 | Sonny Rollins in Japan | Victor (Japan) |
| 1974 | The Cutting Edge | Milestone |
| 1978 | Don't Stop the Carnival | Milestone |
| 1985 | The Solo Album | Milestone |
| 1987 | G-Man | Milestone |
| 2001 | Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert | Milestone |
| 2008 | Road Shows, Vol. 1 | Emarcy |
| 2011 | Road Shows, Vol. 2 | Emarcy |
| 2014 | Road Shows, Vol. 3 | Okeh |
| 2016 | Road Shows, Vol. 4: Holding the Stage | Okeh |
With Miles Davis
With Dizzy Gillespie
With J. J. Johnson
With Thelonious Monk
With Max Roach
With others
Clifford Benjamin Brown was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four years' worth of recordings. His compositions "Sandu", "Joy Spring", and "Daahoud" have become jazz standards. Brown won the DownBeat magazine Critics' Poll for New Star of the Year in 1954; he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1972.
Oscar Pettiford was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom.
Theodore "Fats" Navarro was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York. Following a series of studio sessions with leading bebop figures including Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Kenny Clarke, he became ill with tuberculosis and died at the age of 26. Despite the short duration of his career, he had a strong stylistic influence on trumpet players who rose to fame in later decades, including Clifford Brown and Lee Morgan.
Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer. He is among the most recorded drummers in jazz. In a career lasting over 80 years, he has played swing, bebop, jazz fusion, avant-garde jazz and is considered a pioneer of jazz drumming. "Snap Crackle" was a nickname given to him in the 1950s.
Percy Heath was an American jazz bassist, brother of saxophonist Jimmy Heath and drummer Albert Heath, with whom he formed the Heath Brothers in 1975. Heath played with the Modern Jazz Quartet throughout their long history and also worked with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, Thelonious Monk and Lee Konitz.
Melbourne Robert Cranshaw was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his later involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins. Cranshaw performed in Rollins's working band on and off for over five decades, starting with a live appearance at the 1959 Playboy jazz festival in Chicago and on record with the 1962 album The Bridge.
Walter Davis Jr. was an American bebop and hard bop pianist.
Arthur S. Taylor Jr. was an American jazz drummer, who "helped define the sound of modern jazz drumming".
Dillon "Curley" Russell was an American jazz musician, who played bass on many bebop recordings.
Charlie Rouse was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist. His career is marked by his collaboration with Thelonious Monk, which lasted for more than ten years.
Wilbur Bernard Ware was an American jazz double bassist. He was a regular bassist for the Riverside record label in the 1950s, and recorded regularly in that decade with Johnny Griffin, Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew, and Thelonious Monk. He also appeared on records released by J.R. Monterose, Toots Thielemans, Sonny Clark, Tina Brooks, Zoot Sims, and Grant Green, among others.
Julius Watkins was an American jazz musician who played French horn. Described by AllMusic as "virtually the father of the jazz French horn", Watkins won the Down Beat critics poll in 1960 and 1961 for Miscellaneous Instrument.
James Milton Cleveland was an American jazz trombonist born in Wartrace, Tennessee.
Charles Thomas Potter was an American jazz double bass player, best known for having been a member of Charlie Parker's "classic quintet", with Miles Davis, between 1947 and 1950.
Rossiere "Shadow" Wilson was an American jazz drummer.
Joseph Rupert Benjamin was an American jazz bassist.
Nelson Boyd was an American bebop jazz bassist.
Ernie Henry was an American jazz saxophonist.
George Morrow was a jazz bassist. Although most closely associated with Max Roach and Clifford Brown, Morrow also appears on recordings by Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt.
Modern Jazz Trumpets is an album released by Prestige Records in 1951 with music by four jazz trumpeters: Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Kenny Dorham. The album was released on the 10" LP format and includes the first recordings by Davis for Prestige.