This article presents the discography of the jazz saxophonist and band leader Sonny Rollins.
Studio albums DateAlbumLabel1953Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz QuartetPrestige 1954Moving OutPrestige 1955Work TimePrestige 1956Sonny Rollins Plus 4 Prestige 1956Tenor MadnessPrestige 1956Saxophone ColossusPrestige 1956Rollins Plays for BirdPrestige 1956Tour de ForcePrestige 1956Sonny BoyPrestige 1957Sonny Rollins, Volume 1Blue Note 1957Way Out WestContemporary1957Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2Blue Note 1957The Sound of SonnyRiverside 1957Newk's TimeBlue Note 1957Sonny Rollins Plays (split album with Thad Jones)Period 1958Freedom SuiteRiverside 1958Sonny Rollins and the Big BrassMetroJazz 1958Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary LeadersContemporary1962The BridgeRCA Victor 1962Sonny's TimeJazzland 1962What's New?RCA Victor1963Sonny Meets Hawk!RCA Victor 1964Now's the TimeRCA Victor 1964The Standard Sonny RollinsRCA Victor1965Sonny Rollins on Impulse!Impulse!1966AlfieImpulse!1966East Broadway Run DownImpulse!1972Next AlbumMilestone1973Horn CultureMilestone1975NucleusMilestone1976The Way I Feel Milestone1977Easy LivingMilestone1979Don't AskMilestone1980Love at First SightMilestone1981No ProblemMilestone1982Reel LifeMilestone1984Sunny Days, Starry NightsMilestone1987Dancing in the DarkMilestone 1989Falling in Love with JazzMilestone1991Here's to the PeopleMilestone1993Old FlamesMilestone1996Sonny Rollins + 3Milestone1998Global WarmingMilestone2000This Is What I DoMilestone2006Sonny, PleaseEmarcy
Live albums 1957A Night at the "Village Vanguard"Blue Note 1959Sonny Rollins at Music InnMetroJazz1959Oleo 1959Old Style1962Our Man in JazzRCA Victor1965There Will Never Be Another YouImpulse!1973Sonny Rollins in JapanVictor (Japan)1974The Cutting EdgeMilestone1978Don't Stop the CarnivalMilestone1984St Thomas (In Stockholm, 1959)Dragon1985The Solo AlbumMilestone1987G-ManMilestone2001Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert Milestone2004Live in LondonHarkit Records2008Road Shows, Vol. 1Emarcy2011Road Shows, Vol. 2Emarcy2014Road Shows, Vol. 3Okeh2016Road Shows, Vol. 4: Holding the StageOkeh
Compilations 1992The Complete Prestige Recordings (7 CD set)Prestige
As sideman With Miles Davis Miles Davis and Horns (Prestige, 1951) Dig (Prestige, 1951) Collectors' Items (Prestige, 1953) Bags' Groove (Prestige, 1954)
With Dizzy Gillespie Duets (Verve, 1957) Sonny Side Up (Verve, 1957) - also with Sonny Stitt
With J. J. Johnson J. J. Johnson's Jazz Quintets (Savoy, 1949 ) – four tracks Mad Be-Bop (Savoy, 1949 ) – eight tracks (as above, plus alternate takes) Trombone By Three (Prestige, 1949 ) – album shared with Kai Winding and Bennie Green, original 78 rpm issues under the New Jazz imprint
With Thelonious Monk Monk (Prestige, 1954) Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1956) – 10-inch issue released in 1953 Brilliant Corners (Riverside, 1957)
With Max Roach Live at the Bee Hive (Columbia, 1955, rel., 1979) - Roach co-billed with Clifford Brown Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (EmArcy, 1956) - Roach co-billed with Clifford Brown Max Roach + 4 (EmArcy, 1956) Jazz in ¾ Time (EmArcy, 1956–57)
With others Kenny Dorham, Jazz Contrasts (Riverside, 1957) Art Farmer, Early Art (New Jazz, 1954) Babs Gonzales, Weird Lullaby (Blue Note/Capitol, 1949) Ernie Henry, Last Chorus (Riverside, 1956) Abbey Lincoln, That's Him! (Riverside, 1957) The Modern Jazz Quartet, The Modern Jazz Quartet at Music Inn Volume 2 (Atlantic, 1959) Fats Navarro, The Fabulous Fats Navarro (Blue Note, 1949) Bud Powell, The Amazing Bud Powell (Blue Note, 1949) The Rolling Stones, Tattoo You (Rolling Stones Records, 1981) McCoy Tyner, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, Milestone Jazzstars in Concert (Milestone, 1978)
References
External links Sonny Rollins Discography Project accessed December 18, 2009