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While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

Moon's favourite musicians were jazz artists Gene Krupa and Sonny Rollins.

Most of Davis ' associates at the time, some of them perhaps in imitation of Charlie Parker, had drug addictions of their own ( among them, sax players Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon, trumpeters Fats Navarro and Freddie Webster, and drummer Art Blakey ).

While the personnel of the recordings varied, the lineup often featured Sonny Rollins and Art Blakey.

Davis hired Coltrane as a replacement for Sonny Rollins, after unsuccessfully trying to recruit alto saxophonist Julian " Cannonball " Adderley.

Davis played some gigs at the Cafe Bohemia with a short-lived formation that included Sonny Rollins and drummer Art Taylor, and then traveled to France, where he recorded the score to Louis Malle's film Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud.

* Nucleus ( Sonny Rollins album ), 1975

* 1930 – Sonny Rollins, American saxophonist and composer

** Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist

* " Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression ", quoting " St. Thomas ", a Caribbean melody sometimes attributed to Sonny Rollins, uncredited.

With Sonny Rollins

Dolphy recorded several unaccompanied cuts on saxophone, which at the time had been done only by Coleman Hawkins and Sonny Rollins, making Dolphy the first to do so on alto.

With Prestige he cut several highly significant, but at the time under-recognized, albums, including collaborations with saxophonist Sonny Rollins and drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach.

The complex title track, which featured tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, was so difficult to play that the final version had to be edited together from multiple takes.

* Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins ( Prestige 7075 ), recorded 1953-4

* Brilliant Corners ( 1956 recording with Sonny Rollins and Clark Terry )

With Sonny Rollins

* Sonny Rollins, Vol.

Sonny Rollins recorded for the label in 1956 and 1957 and Bud Powell briefly returned.

The original British film soundtrack featured jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins with local musicians.

Has performed with: actor / singer Danny Aiello, Richie Cannata ( saxophonist w / Billy Joel ), Marc Ford ( Black Crowes ), Peter Stroud ( Sheryl Crow ), Mike Huckabee ( political commentator / bassist ), Michael Wolff ( pianist-The Arsenio Hall Show and Sonny Rollins ), Harvie S ( bassist-Stan Getz and Tony Bennett ), Victor Jones ( drums-Dizzy Gillespie and Chaka Khan )

This version of Rollins Band had some of the most overt jazz leanings of the band's history: Gibbs had begun his career with the jazz fusion group of drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, and worked with Sonny Sharrock on albums like 1987's Seize The Rainbow, which along with Rollins ' obsession with the late ' 60s / early ' 70s era of iconic trumpeter Miles Davis, shaped this version of the band's music.

** Troy Halderson ( engineer ), Lucille Rollins ( producer ) & Sonny Rollins ( producer & artist ) for This Is What I Do