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Rick Laird: Musicians Over Here Sound As If They're Stuck

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 15 January 1966

LONDON — LATEST in a long line of British jazz musicians to trek to the United States is twenty-four-year-old Rick Laird, resident bassist at London's ...

Tempo: R&B and Jazz Album Reviews

Review by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1966

FOR SOME reason, recordings of live rock and roll shows are selling very well. You can hardly hear the music above the enthusiastic audience response ...

Sonny Rollins: Jazz Workshop, San Francisco CA

Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 5 September 1969

Chance to Hear Great Jazz Sax ...

Elvin Jones: This Is The Surgeon Who Pared The Flab

Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 21 June 1975

His name? ELVIN JONES — the man who dissected drum technique, put it together with new muscles, and has been demonstrating the product at Ronnie ...

Outlook Sonny

Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 29 May 1976

SONNY ROLLINS. Mister Big. BRIAN CASE'S main man on a bad line. Case fumbles the introductory bouquet... emerges with a satisfied smile. ...

Muddy Waters, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins: New Victoria Theatre, London

Live Review by Brian Case, Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 6 November 1976

GETTIN' BACK TO IT: MUDDY WATERS, McCOY TYNER & SONNY ROLLINS brought Newport to London's New Victoria Theatre on Saturday. CSM & BRIAN CASE went ...

Sonny Rollins: Sonny Side Up

Live Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 15 June 1985

Sonny Rollins: Dominion Theatre, London ...

Ten Questions for Sonny Rollins

Interview by Richard Cook, MOJO, January 1997

On Milestones, Rolling Stones and Maintaining Mystique ...

Sonny Rollins: The Freelance Years

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 2000

COLTRANE'S GREAT tenor rival gets another boxed-set boost. ...

Sonny Rollins

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001

b. Theodore Walter Rollins, 7 September 1929, New York, USA ...

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