Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Summary

1. Theodore Walter "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7th, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Harlem born and raised, Rollins is considered among the players to have defined the instrument through his prolific practicing, performing and recording over a career that spans sixty decades and more than eighty albums.

Subject

1. Jazz
2. Music > United States > 20th century
3. Saxophone music (Jazz)
4. Video recordings,
5. African Americans in the performing arts
6. Music trade
7. Jazz musicians
8. African Americans > Music
9. Live sound recordings
10. African American musicians
11. Music > United States > 21st century
12. Sound recordings

Genre/Form

1. Jazz.
2. Live sound recordings.
3. Sound recordings.
4. Video recordings

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Rollins 2017

Note

1. Created and collected by Sonny Rollins, the 2475 item audio and moving collection includes interviews, profiles, live performances, practice sessions and studio recordings.
2. See the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Sonny Rollins papers. Sc MG 898. Photographs can be found in the Photograph and Prints Division.

Author

1. Rollins, Sonny, creator.

Title

1. Sonny Rollins audio and moving image collection.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. Rollins, Sonny, performer.
2. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Rollins 2017