Sonny Rollins Discography - session index

1949 (age 19)

• Babs Gonzales Orch.   NYC, Jan. 20, 1949
• Babs Gonzales Orch.   NYC, Apr. 27, 1949
• J.J. Johnson 5   NYC, May 11, 1949
• Jay Jay Johnson's Boppers   NYC, May 26, 1949
• Bud Powell's Modernists   WOR Studios, NYC, Aug. 9, 1949

1951 (age 21)

• Miles Davis 6   Apex Studios, NYC, Jan. 17, 1951
• Sonny Rollins 4   same location, date
• Miles Davis 6   broadcast, Birdland, NYC, Feb. 17, 1951
• Miles Davis 6   broadcast, Birdland, NYC, June 2, 1951
• Miles Davis 6 feat. Sonny Rollins   Apex Studios, NYC, Oct. 5, 1951
• Sonny Rollins 4   Apex Studios, NYC, Dec. 17, 1951

1953

• Miles Davis 6   WOR Studios, NYC, Jan. 30, 1953
• Sonny Rollins with MJQ   NYC, Oct. 7, 1953
• Thelonious Monk 5 feat. Sonny Rollins   WOR Studios, NYC, Nov. 13, 1953

1954

• Art Farmer 5   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Jan. 20, 1954
• Miles Davis and The Modern Jazz Giants   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, June 29, 1954
• Sonny Rollins 5 feat. Kenny Dorham   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Aug. 18, 1954
• Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Oct. 25, 1954

1955

• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 7   Bee Hive Club, Chicago, Nov. 7, 1955
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Dec. 2, 1955

1956

• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   NYC, Jan. 4, 1956
• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   prob. live in NYC, early 1956
• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   NYC, Feb. 16, 1956
• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   NYC, Feb. 17, 1956
• Miles Davis 5   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Mar. 16, 1956
• Sonny Rollins Plus 4   NYC, Mar. 22, 1956
• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   Basin Street East, NYC, Apr. 28, 1956
• Clifford Brown 5   Basin Street East, NYC, May 6, 1956
• Sonny Rollins 4 with John Coltrane   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, May 24, 1956
• Clifford Brown - Max Roach 5   WIOR RB, Continental Restaurant, Norfolk, VA, June 18, 1956
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, June 22, 1956
• Max Roach 5   NYC, Sep. 17, 1956
• Max Roach 5   NYC, Sep. 19, 1956
• Sonny Rollins 5 with Kenny Dorham and Max Roach   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Oct. 5, 1956
• Thelonious Monk 5   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, Oct. 9, 1956
• Max Roach 5   RB, Bandstand USA, Cafe Bohemia, Greenwich Village, NY, Oct. 10, 1956
• Thelonious Monk 5   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, Oct. 15, 1956
• Thelonious Monk 5   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, Dec. 7, 1956
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Dec. 7, 1956
• Max Roach 5   RB, Bandstand USA, Cafe Bohemia, Greenwich Village, NY, Dec. 12, 1956
• Sonny Rollins 5   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Dec. 16, 1956

1957

• Sonny Rollins 3   Contemporary's studio, LA, Mar. 7, 1957
• Max Roach 5   Capitol Tower, LA, Mar. 18, 1957
• Max Roach 5   Capitol Tower, LA, Mar. 20, 1957
• Max Roach 5   Capitol Tower, LA, Mar. 21, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 5/4/6   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Apr. 14, 1957
• Kenny Dorham 5/6   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, May 21 & 27, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 4   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, June 11 & 12, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 4   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, June 19, 1957
• Miles Davis 5   RB, Cafe Bohemia, Greenwich Village, NY, July 13, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Hackensack, NJ, Sep. 22, 1957
• Abbey Lincoln with The Riverside Jazz Stars   Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, Oct. 28, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 3   Village Vanguard, NYC, afternoon set, Nov. 3, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 3   Village Vanguard, NYC, evening set, Nov. 3, 1957
• Sonny Rollins 5   NYC, Nov. 4, 1957
• Miles Davis All Stars   Long Island, NY, Nov. or Dec., 1957
• Dizzy Gillespie Duets with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt   Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, Dec. 11, 1957
• Dizzy Gillespie Duets with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt   Nola Penthouse Sound Studios, NYC, Dec. 19, 1957

1958

• Sonny Rollins 3   WOR Studios, NYC, Feb. 27, & Mar. 7, 1958
• Sonny Rollins 3   Newport Jazz Fest., Newport, RI, July 7, 1958
• Sonny Rollins 3   Beltone Studios, NYC, July 10, 1958
• Sonny Rollins and The Big Brass   Metropolitan Sound Studios, NYC, July 11, 1958
• Sonny Rollins with John Lewis 3   Music Inn, Lenox, MA, Aug. 3, 1958
• MJQ with Sonny Rollins   Music Inn, Lenox, MA, Aug. 31, 1958
• Sonny Rollins and The Contemporary Leaders   Contemporary's studio, LA, Oct. 20, 21 & 22, 1958

1959

• Sonny Rollins 3   Nalen, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 2, 1959
• Sonny Rollins 3   Swedish Radio, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 4, 1959
• Sonny Rollins 3   Sodra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden, Mar. 4, 1959
• Sonny Rollins 3   Radio Studio Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Mar. 5, 1959
• Sonny Rollins 3   Aix-en-Provence, France, Mar. 11, 1959

1962 (age 32)

• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Jan. 30, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Jan. 31, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Feb. 13, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Feb. 14, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 7   NYC, Apr. 5, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 7   NYC, Apr. 25, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 7   NYC, Apr. 26, 1962
• Sonny Rollins 3   NYC, May 14, 1962
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   Village Gate, Greenwich Village, NY, July 27-30, 1962
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   Continental, 1962

1963

• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, Jan. 15, 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   broadcast, L'Olympia, Paris, France, Jan. 19, 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   Liederhalle, Stuttgart, W. Germany, Jan. 29, 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jan., 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Don Cherry 4   NYC, Feb. 20, 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Coleman Hawkins 5   NYC, July 15, 1963
• Sonny Rollins - Coleman Hawkins 5   NYC, July 18, 1963

1964

• Sonny Rollins 5   NYC, Jan. 15, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Jan. 17, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 5   NYC, Jan. 20, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Feb. 14, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, Feb. 18, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 3   NYC, Apr. 14, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 6   NYC, June 11, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, June 23, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, June 24, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, June 26, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 4   NYC, July 2, 1964
• Sonny Rollins 3   NYC, July 9, 1964

1965

• Sonny Rollins   The Museum Of Modern Art, NYC, June 17, 1965
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 8, 1965
• Sonny Rollins 5   broadcast, Berlin Jazz Fest., Berlin, W. Germany, Oct. 30, 1965
• Sonny Rollins 3   Tivolis Koncertsal, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov. 1, 1965; Johanneshovs Isstadion, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 2, 1965
• Sonny Rollins 3   Salle De La Mutualite, Paris, France, 1st set, Nov. 4, 1965

1966

• Sonny Rollins and Oliver Nelson   VGS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Jan. 26, 1966
• Sonny Rollins 4   VGS, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 9, 1966
• Sonny Rollins 3   Stefaniensaal, Graz, Austria, Nov. 12, 1966

1968

• Sonny Rollins 4   Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sep. 6, 1968
• Sonny Rollins with The Kenny Drew 3   Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, Sep. 8, 1968

1972 (age 42)

• Sonny Rollins 5   NYC, July 14, 1972
• Sonny Rollins 5   NYC, July 27, 1972

1973

• Sonny Rollins 6   NYC, June & July, 1973; Berkeley, CA, June 7, 1973
• Sonny Rollins 5   live in Chateauvallon, France, Aug. 21, 1973
• Sonny Rollins 5   Nakano Sun Plaza Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 30, 1973

1974

• Sonny Rollins 7   Montreux Jazz Fest., Montreux, Switzerland, July 6, 1974
• Sonny Rollins 5   RB, German radio station: Deutschlandradio Kultur, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Nov. 12, 1974

1975

• Sonny Rollins' Band   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Sep. 2-5, 1975

1976

• Sonny Rollins 6 with Orch.   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Aug.-Oct., 1976
• Sonny Rollins 5   live in Turin, Italy, Nov. 12, 1976

1977

• Sonny Rollins 6/5/4   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 3-6, 1977

1978

• Sonny Rollins 6   Great American Music Hall, SF, Apr. 13, 14 & 15, 1978
• Milestone Jazzstars   Masonic Auditorium, SF, Sep. 22, 1978; University Of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Oct. 15, 1978; Yale University, New Haven, CT, Oct. 22, 1978

1979

• Sonny Rollins 6   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, May 15-18, 1979

1980 (age 50)

• Sonny Rollins 5   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA; additional recording: Aura Sound Studios, NYC, May 9-12, 1980
• The Rolling Stones with Sonny Rollins   LA, 1980

1981

• Sonny Rollins 5   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 9-15, 1981

1982

• Sonny Rollins 5 +   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Aug. 17-22, 1982

1983

• Pat Metheny with Sonny Rollins & 3   Yomiuri Land, Open Theater East, Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 1983

1984

• Sonny Rollins 5 +   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Jan. 23-27, 1984

1985

• Sonny Rollins 1   The Sculpture Garden Of The Museum Of Modern Art, NYC, July 19, 1985
• Sonny Rollins 5   c. 1985

1986

• Sonny Rollins 5   Opus 40, Saugerties, NY, Aug. 16, 1986; additional recording: Manhattan Recording Studios, NYC, Apr. 9, 1987

1987

• Sonny Rollins 5   Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Sep. 15-25, 1987

1989

• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, June 3, 1989
• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 5, 1989
• Sonny Rollins 6   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Sep. 9, 1989

1991 (age 61)

• Sonny Rollins 6   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 10, 1991
• Sonny Rollins 6   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 17, 1991
• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 24, 1991
• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 27, 1991

1993

• Sonny Rollins 5 with Brass Choir   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, July & Aug., 1993

1995

• Sonny Rollins + 3   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Aug. 30, 1995
• Sonny Rollins + 3   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Oct. 7, 1995

1998

• Sonny Rollins 4   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Jan. 7, 1998
• Sonny Rollins 6   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, Feb. 28, 1998

2000 (age 70)

• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, May 8 & 9, 2000
• Sonny Rollins 5   Clinton Recording Studios, NYC, July 29, 2000

2001

• Sonny Rollins 6   Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, Sep. 15, 2001

2005

• Sonny Rollins 6   Avatar Studios, Studio A, NYC, Dec. 20 & 21, 2005; Avatar Studios, Studio B, NYC, Jan. 13, 2006; Avatar Studios, Studio B, NYC, Feb. 9 & 10, 2006

2008

• Sonny Rollins   released 2008; Kosei Nenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan, May 25, 1986; La Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France, May 15, 2006; Umea Jazz Fest., Umea, Sweden, Oct. 25, 1980; Jazz Jamboree, Congress Hall, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 23, 1980; Pantheon Tama, Tama City, Japan, June 8, 2000; Royal Theatre, Victoria, Canada, June 24, 2007; Carnegie Hall, NYC, Sep. 18, 2007

2011 (age 81)

• Sonny Rollins   released 2011; Sappoto Shimin Hall, Sapporo, Japan, Oct. 1, 2010; Beacon Theatre, NYC, Sep. 10, 2010; Tokyo International Forum Hall, Forum A, Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 7, 2010

2014

• Sonny Rollins   released 2014; Saitama City Culture Center, Saitama, Japan, Nov. 11, 2001; Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France, May 15, 2006; Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France, July 25, 2012; Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, St Louis, MO, Sep. 19, 2009; Le Chapiteau, Marciac, France, Aug. 11, 2007; Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France, July 25, 2012

2016

• Sonny Rollins   released 2016; Barbican, London, England, Nov. 24, 2007; Palais Longchamp, Marseille, France, July 25, 2012; Struny Podzimu, Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 30, 2012; Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, Oct. 23, 1996; Riihiketo School, Pori, Finland, July 13, 1979; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, Sep. 15, 2001; La Halle aux Grains, Toulouse, France, May 15, 2006; Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA, Sep. 15, 2001

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